Bush cited Kerry's four-point plan and dismissed it as proposing "exactly what we're currently doing."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=2&u=/ap/20040921/ap_on_el_pr/politics_of_iraqAnd some more commentary...
Kerry said every problem in Iraq was predicted by studies, experts and administration officials. To stop further deterioration, Kerry said Bush must:
• Convene a summit of major powers and Iraq's neighbors to get them to honor financial and other commitments made in a U.N. resolution last spring. Let them bid on reconstruction contracts and help develop oil resources.
• Expand and speed up training for Iraqi security forces and stop misleading the U.S. public "with phony, inflated numbers."
• Shift post-war focus to "quick-impact" projects that employ more Iraqis and fewer corporations like Halliburton, which Vice President Cheney used to run. Fire people who mismanaged reconstruction.
• Take immediate steps to make sure elections can be held next year. The United Nations has only 25% of the staff it needs for the election, Kerry said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-20-kerry-iraq-plan_x.htm1) Hasn't Bush locked out any country that wasn't there with us from the beginning?
2) Didn't the estimated number of trained security forces drop from ~210,000 to significantly less than 95,000?
3) Has anyone been fired? Anywhere? Are we hiring more Iraqis, or still just pumping all of our money into Halliburton?
4) I must have missed it. I didn't hear Bush's call for the UN to start staffing up elections supervisors today.
Could it be? No! Say it isn't so! Could Bush be a fvcking liar?