John Kerry actually said...

"I strongly believe in the mission in Afghanistan, combined with our efforts in Pakistan, was and is the true front on the war on terror."

"To persist in efforts to do so--as the Obama administration appears intent on doing in Afghanistan--will simply replicate on an even greater scale mistakes and misjudgments comparable to those that yo..."

"Senator Kerry--to this very committee in 1971, you spoke of 'men who have returned with a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped.'"

"If your goal is larger than that, in terms of nation-building and otherwise, that's a much more expensive and longer term proposition."