Re: Clear as Mud - Kerry on Iraq
I listened to Kerry on Imus, and I also listened to Joe Biden on Imus this morning.<br /><br />According to Biden, Congress rushed to pass a 17 billion dollar reconstruction fund for Iraq, and so far, 17 months later we have spent 500 million of it. Despite what Rumsfeld says, we have completely trained no Iraqi security forces.<br /><br />We have no coherent policy currently in Iraq, and more and more American soldiers are getting killed every month.<br /><br />And the administration wants to spin it to suggest that everything is going fine...<br /><br />And we go to the UN, and not talk about Iraq, or Iran, or North Korea, but rather we talk about cloning.<br /><br />I tend to agree that Kerry did not articulate his position as good as he could, as there is no simple solution to this mess, but Biden did, and it is clear from all the available evidence we need to do something, anything, everything different than we are doing now. <br /><br />And pretending that everything is wonderful over there, as the current administration is doing, is disgusting and disrespectful of our troops over there risking their lives.