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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Apr 12, 2004 11:27pm |
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| News Date | Monday, April 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Kerry Says US Must De-Americanize Iraq Policy
Reuters
Democratic challenger John Kerry said on Monday Washington needed to "de-Americanize" the transformation of Iraq by replacing U.S. administrator Paul Bremer with someone like top U.N. aide Lakhdar Brahimi. Laying out an alternative to what he called President Bush's failed diplomacy, Kerry said: "If I were president today, right now today, I would be going very directly to the United Nations and I would summon the world to an effort that I think the world has a stake in."
Republicans have criticized Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for failing to tell Americans what he would do differently in Iraq. The Massachusetts senator, who is walking a fine political line between supporting U.S. troops and criticizing Bush's conduct of the war and its aftermath, has tried to focus on his economic agenda on the campaign trail. But he has been repeatedly sidetracked by questions about the mounting casualties and bloodshed in Iraq, which have dominated U.S. television and newspapers. In some of his most detailed remarks on Iraq, Kerry told students at the University of New Hampshire he would be prepared to turn over authority for the political transformation of Iraq, and its reconstruction, to the United Nations. But he said he would "hold on to the military security component under our command." |
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