Kerry discusses Cheney and Iraq with Ed Schultz: "we don’t trust these guys...it’s just that simple"

Ed Schultz: Well, he wants a clean bill -- no dates, no benchmarks, so --

John Kerry: Well, sorry Mr. President. We don’t – you know, we don’t trust these guys. Ed, it’s just that simple. They’ve been wrong and wrong and wrong and wrong. And you can multiply that out, probably. Almost every single decision with respect to Iraq has been wrong. You can go back to Dick Cheney talking about Saddam Hussein having reconstituted nuclear weapons, to his definitive statement in 2002, 5 years ago, “Saddam is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time” -- boom! Wrong. He was wrong. He was wrong when he said 2 years ago, “We’ll succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan.” Well, we have troubles in Afghanistan, and he said – we all remember, who has forgotten him saying that the insurgency is in the last throes? This was two years ago. You got more violence month to month than ever before. Why should we listen to them? They have been wrong, and we need – you know, they claim we’re interfering with their management of the war-- well, of course we are, because they are not managing it effectively.

The President keeps mischaracterizing it - as usual - misleading Americans - as usual - when he stands up and says to America, "This is a surrender bill." I mean, since when? What a stupid characterization of an important foreign policy decision.