Reply #9: Because the WH plays stupid. They should have gone to the Congress to ask for an

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authorization after 60 days. They did not. Kerry and Durbin rushing to the rescue of the WH (with the support of neoncons like McCain) is not the same thing, and if anything, shows that Kerry agrees the WH should have asked this authorization. If Bush had done that, everybody would be in arms.

Results, an absurd situation where, today, the House rejected the Kerry-Mccain resolution while refusing to reject the funding for the operation. Not exactly logical, and very embarrassing for the WH.

I also heard Kerry's interview on the News Hour concerning Afghanistan. I' ve read everywhere including in other interviews that he supports Obama. I think his support is probably as reluctant as Boxer or Levin, at least this is what I got from the NewsHour interview, that it was a step in the right direction, but far from what he would have liked to see. He is probably too much of a good soldier to let it show like Levin did.