Candidate Reactions

[sandnsea]

``Other than telling the country that this will be expensive, the president did very little to demonstrate he has a true plan. This president must offer more specifics on these and other important questions if he is to build the legitimacy and consent of this nation and our neighbors throughout the world to win the peace in Iraq and win the global war on terror.''

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.


"What tonight's speech called for was for the president to demonstrate some courage of his own. Instead, he retreated to the same rhetoric about progress and peace that do not match the reality occurring every day in Iraq. It is a country consumed with chaos, not a shining example of progress in the war against terrorism."

- Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.

"There are more al-Qaida in Iraq today than there ever were before we invaded Iraq.

"The fact is that we cannot afford to allow Iraq to descend into chaos... and that is the risk the president has now created."

- Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean

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[disgruntella]

1. this was my favorite

(aside from Kerry, I dig him)

"Our allies are not just going to hand over divisions of troops and money. We have to understand our allies are democracies, too."

- Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

Can you hear the "Well, DUH!"

[juajen]

2. Chuck Hagel

I bet he throws his hat in the ring if *s numbers are still sinking in the next coupla months.

[Jim Sagle]

3. And he runs a voting machine company. That may help.