Kerry Criticizes Bush's 'Stubborn' Iraq Policy

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Mar 17, 11:23 pm ET

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry, marking the first anniversary of the Iraq war, accused President Bush on Wednesday of stubbornly pursuing a failed policy that has weakened the military and driven away allies.

In a speech delivered as a huge bomb blast destroyed a Baghdad hotel, Kerry said there was "no end in sight" to the daily dangers faced by U.S. soldiers in Iraq despite Bush's declaration on an aircraft carrier last May of "mission accomplished."

"We are still bogged down in Iraq -- and the administration stubbornly holds to failed, unilateral policies that drive ... allies away," the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said at George Washington University.

"But the answer is not a stubborn pursuit of the same arrogant policies; the answer to failure is not more of the same," Kerry said. "Instead we have to return more effectively to the international community."

[UpInArms]

1. this mal-administration does not understand

that when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

These folks do not reverse a Custer decision and they haven't figured out that they are not dealing solely with "helpless women and children" (a line from "Little Big Man").

the current accounting of US military losses is 569.

The lives ruined and destroyed: immeasurable

[Dr Fate]

2. Read entire AMAZING speech here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=468331&mesg_id=468331