Quote Of The Week

"It’s simple for the president to joke about very serious issues when young kids are dying because he didn’t make the plan to win the peace in Iraq. And I take that very personally as somebody who fought in a war, which he chose not to, that saw leaders make bad decisions. That’s what happened. And leaders didn’t tell the truth to the American people. So it means something to me.

Now, when the president gets us into Iraq and refuses to bring the allies to the table, refuses to do what’s necessary in terms of diplomacy and statesmanship to share the burden, when you, Don Imus, and every other taxpayer in America are paying billions of dollars to open firehouses in Iraq while we’re shutting them in the United States, as well as all the other things that are being wrapped up in that money, John Edwards and I both thought, 'Rather than just dumping another $87 billion into this wrongly headed policy, let’s get it right.'”

It’s very simple. And we voted to get it right.

Senator John F. Kerry

Imus In The Morning
MSNBC
July 15, 2004