John Kerry

It actually makes sense in why the Republicans are so negative - more so than Israel. It is interesting that the media is crediting him with being the first Republican to criticize - when some like Chafee voted against it. Nor were Clinton and Biden EARLY critics of the war and Obama , though he spoke against going in, voted against the ideas of Kerry/Feingold which he then embraced in concept in his own plan 6 months later. I am pointing this out, not to be picky, but to point out that in an article on how Obama (and his team) want to write the history of what happened in Iraq, they are framing the Democratic/Obama position as benignly as possible.

Another "little" historical fib is that Hagel endorsed Obama in 2008. I was surprised to hear and read this so many times when I did not remember it. Googling, I found that he did not "publicly" endorse Obama, but his wife did.