Biden: "I really respect him, and I think he's dead flat wrong," .

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from the Huffington Post

Biden contended that Bush's main strategy was to buy time and extend the troop presence in Iraq long enough to push the burden onto the next president, who takes office in January 2009, to fix the sectarian strife.

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"I think the general will present the facts with respect to the statistics and the tactical successes or situations as he sees them," Kerry said. "But none of us should be fooled _ not the American people, not you in the media, not us in Congress _ we should not be fooled into this tactical success debate."

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he respects the judgment of Petraeus but will not blindly follow his assessment.

"We're going to look behind the generalizations that General Petraeus or anybody gives us and probe the very hard facts to see exactly what the situation is," Specter said. "As I've said in the past, unless we see some light at the end of the tunnel here, very closely examining what General Petraeus and others have to say, I think there's a general sense that there needs to be a new policy."

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