Having apparently learned only one thing from his much-boasted-about service in Vietnam—that the most important thing in war is to cut and run as soon as possible, and broadcast your timetable to the enemy—John Kerry applies his foreign policy expertise to the war against radical Islam: Kerry Slams ‘Wrong War in the Wrong Place’. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry accused President Bush on Monday of sending U.S. troops to the “wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time” and said he’d try to bring them all home in four years. Bush rebuked him for taking “yet another new position” on the war.

Iraq overshadowed the traditional Labor Day kickoff of the fall campaign and its time-honored emphasis on jobs, as Kerry delivered some of his harshest rhetoric against Bush’s handling of the war and highlighted its economic costs. The Democrat set, for the first time, a tentative time frame for completing a withdrawal that Republican opponents say is too soon even to begin.

“We want those troops home, and my goal would be to try to get them home in my first term,” Kerry said, speaking to a fellow Vietnam War veteran at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania who had asked about a timetable for withdrawal.

Bush, campaigning in southeast Missouri, described Kerry’s attack as the product of chronic equivocation combined with a shake up of his advisers.

“After voting for the war, but against funding it, after saying he would have voted for the war even knowing everything we know today, my opponent woke up this morning with new campaign advisers and yet another new position,” Bush said in prepared remarks.