Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry will
develop
a "clear, concise, consistent" Iraq policy by "no
later than 2024," a campaign memo stated yesterday.
The memo will be an "unmitigated disaster" for Kerry's campaign, Republican strategists said.
"We were hoping Kerry could settle on a plan for Iraq
by 2015," one anonymous campaign aide said yesterday.
"But this 2021 business will cement our boy's
reputation as a flip-flopping, weak-willed waffler."
The memo also contained quotes that Kerry
speechwriters
"wisely excluded," including the line, "If the
American
people elect me for two straight terms, I can
guarantee
that my plan for Iraq will be complete eleven years
after I've left office...and if the Iraqis are
fortunate, and I really decide to tackle the issue,
it'll be only four or five years after
I'm outta there."
Kerry also planned on articulating that if he "was in
office during World War I, the Germans would've heard
from us by the mid 1920s," but that was also excluded
because there were only 14 non-Vietnam related seconds
of his acceptance speech.
The memo had Kerry "furious...wait, maybe not
furious…let's say perturbed" about the memo and that
"he'll figure out an Iraq policy by 2012 at the
latest."
