Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year.

The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a ``cut-and-run" strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists.

The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator's sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize force. It also stands in contrast to his handling of the war issue during his campaign for president two years ago.

``My friends, war is no excuse for its own perpetuation," Kerry said before a group of cheering liberal activists who had gathered in Washington yesterday for a ``Take Back America" conference. ``It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake -- to say the simple words that contain more truth than pride. . . . It was wrong and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution."

Kerry is wrong again

Somehow, I just don't think that Ketchup Boy is in a position to demand much of anything (except maybe for an increase in his weekly allowance from sugar mama Teresa.)

The good thing about this is that Kerry, I think, is the new bellwether of where the trend is heading--it used to be Al Gore that had this sort of impeccably bad timing (like, making a big, important Global Warming speech on a record-breaking cold day in the middle of the winter), now it's Kerry--whichever way he leans, you know the trend is heading in the opposite direction. Whatever the smart move is, count on him to do the opposite. He's like the political George Costanza--except he hasn't learned yet to just do the opposite of his natural instincts.

I like it when   he speaks like that, because I feel so much better he is not president....

BTW Matilda did you give  the two cartoon characters Flag Day off,(at the top of the home page)

YES!

Senate Republicans, to highlight Democratic divisions over an exit strategy, engineered a quick vote on an amendment circulated by Kerry, Bush's 2004 Democratic election opponent. The Senate voted 93-6 to table the amendment, a maneuver that effectively stifles consideration of the measure.

Kerry said he resented that Republicans brought up his amendment without his approval. The senator said he was still making adjustments to his troop withdrawal plan and would try to bring it up later.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3974547.html

So how many times a day do you thank the Good Lord that President Bush was re-elected over this fool?

So, Mr. Kerry, were you also wrong when you voted FOR the invasion of Iraq, but then voted AGAINST the funding for it as you blamed Bush and Rumsfeldt for the lack of armor for Humvees and such?

were you "wrong" for sloughing off over 76% of public Senate Intel Comittee hearings in the years following the first WTC attack?

Which part of "wrong" was "I voted for it before I voted against it"?
must be one or the other.

were you "wrong" when you publicly gave aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese communists while they were torturing our soldiers?

were you "wrong" when you published a book with a cover showing hippies desecrating an up-side down American flag?

were you "wrong" to be a leader of a group that plotted to murder United States Senators.

where you "wrong" when you lied on the Senate floor with your "Christmas in Cambodia" tale?

were you "wrong" to call yourself a Catholic and receive Holy communion, do a photo-op with ashes on your forehead when the only break that you took from your pathetic and failed Presidential campaign was to scurry back to D.C. to vote FOR the legalized murder of third trimester babys, a stage where even heathen "scientists" can't declare them less than human.....as they think, smile and show emotions.

were you "wrong" to pander to minorities throughout your miserable career while placing none (or few) people of color in high positions in your staff/campaigns?

were you "wrong" to pander to the envoironmental crowd as you fight tooth and nail to keep your home district totally dependant on heavy oil (the worst) for it's energy needs.

Wrong?

It seems to me Mr. Kerry that the only "right" things that you've ever done were to marry money (twice) and latch onto the clout laden coattails of a substance abusing disgrace named Ted.

p.s. not that it matters, but you will NEVER be President, and I for one hope and pray that someone, anyone knocks your useless ass out of the Senate....don't laugh it could happen.