Reply #5: I think this is the most intersting exchange [View All]

[TayTay]

SEN. KERRY: What you're saying begs a political solution, not a military solution.

SEC. RICE: That's correct.

SEN. KERRY: But mostly, what we've been pursuing up until recently has been, until, perhaps, Ambassador Khalilzad -- who, I think most of us would agree, is doing an outstanding job under difficult circumstances, but with limited ability, because he's basically trying to resolve a fundamental difference between Shi'a and Sunni -- Shi'a, who are dominant in numbers and will dominate the government; Sunni, who want to return to power.

Now there's nothing in the political equation and nothing in the constitution that resolves that fundamental divide. How do you do that? What are your plans to do that?

They don't really have a plan to do that. They plan on waiting them out. (And costing the US treasury a fortune.)

I think you are dead-on with the idea that Kerry wants more regional influence in order to stave off an overly sympathetic to Iran government. This is bad news for the rest of the ME and could lead to regional war. (Which is a nightmare scenario.) Kerry wants to stabilize Iraq first and wants to do so without allowing Iraq to become a theocracy. (It is on the road to that.)

Condi's ploy was nasty and Kerry has never said anything supportive of Saddam or his rule of terror. (Typical Rethug ploy. Smear your attackers, especially when they are right.)