Reply #6: You are missing the most important thing of all.

[eridani]

The real reason for the war was a permanent military presence in Iraq, and everyone seriously antiwar knows that. Kerry has specifically disavowed this policy. There is no more important message you can give to the antiwar voter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/politics/campaign/07campaign.html?pagewanted=all&position=

Asked his timetable for pulling troops out of Iraq, Mr. Kerry told a few hundred people in Canonsburg, Pa.: "My goal would be to get them home in my first term. And I believe that can be done." He said he would make it clear that "we do not have long-term designs to maintain bases and troops in Iraq."