John Kerry: The Escalation Didn't Work

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I chaired a hearing on the GAO Report yesterday, the report that stated that Iraqi civilians overall aren't any safer, that the political benchmarks aren't being met in Iraq, that, in short, none of the rationales for the escalation in Iraq have come to pass. It unfolds with maddening, enraging regularity: the Administration claims goals for their policy, they gradually back off of those goals and substitute smaller, less easily measured goals, and then muddy the waters hopelessly on whether even those modest new goals have been met. Time and again we've been through this.

John Kerry nails it perfectly. This has been BushCo™ MO since the start of his presidency. As far back as the spy plane incident with China pre-9/11 they've displayed this very pattern. And after this many years, I don't expect to see any change in their approach to any policy.