I'M DECISIVE, YOU'RE ARBITRARY:

Kerry criticizes June 30 Iraq deadline: But Bush campaign says Democrat 'playing politics' (The Associated Press, April  06, 2004)

Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry suggested Tuesday that President Bush may have set the June 30 deadline for turning over control of Iraq to interim government for political reasons.

“I think the June 30 deadline is a fiction and they never should have set an arbitrary deadline, which almost clearly has been affected by the election schedule in the United States of America,” Kerry told National Public Radio in an interview to be broadcast Wednesday.

Kerry later said he hopes the date has nothing to do with the Nov. 2 presidential election.

Asked what he meant in his statement to NPR, Kerry told reporters: “I mean that I think they wanted to get the troops out and get the transfer out of the way as fast as possible without regard to the stability of Iraq. The test ought to be the stability of Iraq, not an arbitrary date. ... It should not be related to the election.”

Simple question: Which arbitrary date would he prefer?

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 7, 2004 1:33 PM