MB reader Jeanne B. writes:

In his after-speech presser today, Kerry said “No one…NO ONE on the Democratic or Republican side… is calling for timetable for withdrawal of troops”. (In a silly move he then said they’re calling for a “timetable for success”.)
But Kerry must not be reading his own press clippings. Here’s the Washington Post late last month:Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) used a speech today [10/26/05] at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to become the second Democrat considering the 2008 race to call for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.andJohn F. Kerry (D-Mass.) yesterday called for the withdrawal of 20,000 troops from Iraq by year’s end as the first step in a proposal that would significantly reduce U.S. military forces in the region over the next 15 months.”The way forward in Iraq is not to pull out precipitously or merely promise to stay ‘as long as it takes,’ ” Kerry said during an address at Georgetown University. “We must instead simultaneously pursue both a political settlement and the withdrawal of American combat forces.”I’d forgotten how easy it is to shoot Kerry down. I guess he was FOR the withdrawal before he was AGAINST the withdrawal.