Democrat John Kerry, on a Labor Day tour of Midwestern states where polls show the presidential race virtually tied, told voters he would try to pull out troops in Iraq within four years. "We want those troops home, and my goal would be to try to get them home in my first term," Kerry said, speaking to a fellow Vietnam War veteran in the audience of his campaign event.
| The jihadis say thank you, and will now wait for five years. |
Faulting Bush on almost every aspect of his move toward war, Kerry said the United States is carrying the burden in casualties and cost. He called the president's coalition "the phoniest thing I ever heard."
| Thus ensuring that the Brits, Aussies, Salvadorans, etc., won't have anything to do with him. |
"This president rushed to war without a plan to win the peace, and he's cost all of you $200 billion that could have gone to schools, could have gone to buy a pony health care, could have gone to prescription drugs, could have gone to our Social Security," he said. "It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said. |