"I was for the Iraq war before I was against it" is perhaps one statement the current Secretary of state John Kerry would like to not have made during his unsuccessful U.S. Presidential campaign.

On Feb 24th 2015 Reuters reported White House spokesman Josh Earnest saying:

“The United States was negotiating a 10-year nuclear deal with Iran are not true, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.”

Washington Post report on exchange during public Senate subcommittee hearing between Senator Menendez and John Kerry:

““I want to raise my saber with you that I thought and every time we’ve talked, we were talking about a 20-year timeframe. Now, we’re talking about a 10-year timeframe, if it’s true, and with relief in the five latter years of the 10 years. If that happens to be in the universe, that’s problematic. And I just want you to take that back with you because I think it’s really a great problem.” Kerry insisted it was not so.”

On March 2nd 2015 Reuters reported:

“Obama says Iran must halt key nuclear work for at least a decade.

The White House last week denied a report that the United States and Iran were exploring a possible 10-year deal that would initially freeze Iran's nuclear program but gradually allow it to increase activities that could enable it to produce nuclear arms in the last years of the agreement.”

Either some people don’t know a decade means 10 years and not 20 or, Obama is officially and publicaly contradicting his White House spokesman as well as his Secretary of State.

Poor John Kerry is left to explain away this newest fuzzy logic. 10=20

Sanction works, U.S. senate, get to it.