On December 3, 2003, John Kerry said that a premature U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would be “tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy” and that a “sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal without adequate stability” would be “an invitation to failure.” He contended that it would be “a disaster and a disgraceful betrayal of principle” to accelerate the transfer of authority to Iraqis so as to allow “a politically expedient withdrawal of American troops.”

But this past week, Kerry introduced an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that would withdraw U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by the end of this year.

So I guess a “disgraceful betrayal of principle” through a “cut-and-run strategy” that invites failure is okay as long as it’s done by a Democrat.