Kerry

"To undermine the insurgency, we must instead simultaneously pursue both a political settlement and the withdrawl of American combat forces linked to specific, responsible benchmarks," he said. "At the first benchmark, the completion of December elections, we can start the process of reducing our forces by 20,000 troops of the course of the holidays." (courtesy abcnews.com)

This is what is needed right now. Discussion. Debate. Dialog. I would have gone one better and invited the president to an Iraqi roundtable discussion with a combination of Senate Dems and GOPer's.

Tucker Carlson apparently agrees to some extent with Kerry saying on "Hardball" this evening the president at some point will have to say something different other than "stay the course," the public isn't buying it. Carlson also called Iraq the "original sin" that brought us to the CIA leak debacle.