Senators Say Bush Needs to Take Control
washingtonpost.com
<<...Kerry, who voted for the congressional war resolution before the invasion, stepped up his attacks on Bush's decision to go to war in the first place. He said some of the administration's pre-war assertions about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction "misled America."
"They told us there were aerial vehicles" to deliver Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. "They weren't there," he said, speaking on ABC's "This Week." "They told us they had a 45-minute deployment period for weapons of mass destruction. That wasn't true. They told us they were on the road to nuclear weaponization. That was not true."
"He ought to apologize to the people of this country because what they've done now is launch a PR campaign instead of a real policy," Kerry said. "We need to go to the United Nations more humbly, more directly, more honestly, solicit help in a way that brings the United Nations into this effort, or you are going to continue to see bomb after bomb after bomb."
Kerry also derided the administration's effort to portray current efforts in Iraq as international in nature. "We have a fraudulent coalition, and I use the word 'fraud.' It's a few people here, a few people there. It's basically the British, and, most fundamentally, the United States of America."
"This administration has alienated people all across this planet," he said. "They have, in fact, made America less safe."...>> |
