Kerry
The article Winston cites for Kerry's "surrender" speech is inadequate justification for the criticism. While you may "resonably" read his message as "we must get", you cannot reasonalbly assert that he also means right away, regardless of the status of reconstruction. The comments just don't support it. Remember the president's stated goal is to get out a soon as we can - I believe the phrase was "not one day longer" than needed.

As for ending a quotation with a preposition, another Winston (Churchill) noted that this was a stupid rule "up with which I shall not put". If were looking for grammar and syntax as indicators of qualifications, nobody from the Bush family of language-manglers would have ever been elected.