Mostly, a Democrat proposing that we do something we've been doing the whole time.

The Egyptians have offered to train hundreds more of the police. And the Jordanians have offered advanced military training for young officers. Yet none of these offers have been—we have not taken them up on any of these offers.

Iraqi forces have been training in Jordan and elsewhere for many months.

From this document:

A variety of training initiatives have been undertaken by the MNSTC that have involved various coalition partners working in concert with U.S. forces, Iraqi officials, and trainees. The training initiatives with the largest international components are those designed to train Iraqi police at locations in Jordan, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq (see below). Police instructors from Jordan, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Austria, Iraq, Finland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Singapore, and Belgium participate in various aspects of the police training programs. Other initiatives have been undertaken between individual coalition members and Iraqi personnel, such as the Royal Australian Navy’s recently completed efforts to train Iraq’s Coastal Defense Force. The Netherlands and the Czech Republic have also directed training programs for Iraqi security personnel. Poland signed a bilateral agreement with the Interim Iraqi Government in October 2004 to provide training services and equipment for the Iraqi military.

Third, we should press our NATO allies to come up with a small force of 3,000 to 5,000 troops to help guard the Iraqi border, particularly around Syria.

Over half of all NATO nations already have troops in Iraq, although most don't have very many.

The Democrats have been pushing the myth that the only thing keeping France and Germany from pouring troops into Iraq is Bush somehow preventing it. Maybe Biden knows the secret phrase that would have France eager to enter the war. If so, why not just write it down on a card and give it to the State Department?

And fifth, we must refocus the Iraqi government on how to eventually integrate all militias in Iraq. The Badr brigade, the Madhi army, the peshmurga, their causing sectarian and social tensions in Iraq. They cannot—you cannot have a functioning state, a unitary government with militias beholding to parochial interest. That cannot be done now immediately, but we should begin the process now of making it clear that that is what is needed for a unitary state.

The government of Iraq has been trying to do this for some time. Again, if Biden has a trick up his sleeve to accomplish it, I'd like to know.

Third, we must focus resources on smaller projects that make an impact on ordinary lives. The Iraqis are simply looking for an improvement in their standard of living. They're not looking at this time for state-of-the-art infrastructure on a par with the West. Instead of building a tertiary sewer treatment plant, we should be running PCB pipe out of the back of homes into the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers rather than have two feet of raw sewage on the front doorstep of every Iraqi when they step out of their
house.

Most of the "Good News From Iraq" series describes such projects.

And parallel, we should increase the amount of reconstruction funds given directly to our military, which has been one of the few success stories in the whole reconstruction process.

The Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) has been doing this as well, and has been well-funded.

It pretty much keeps going like this. A lot of good ideas, most of them already in play, or impractical.

And finally, we must recruit other countries to share the burden in Iraq. I still believe that what I called for more than a year ago is the right thing to do and that it's doable.

So do it already. Still waiting for the "how."

The assumption through all this (Kerry made a similar speech recently) is that the Bush administration has attempted or accomplished none of these things. That "staying the course" somehow means no reconstruction, no training, no working on getting international cooperation. This is not the case.

Kerry lost the election partially because he could not answer the question "what would you do differently in Iraq?" Simply announcing "we need a better plan" is a null statement.