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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (426306)	7/13/2003 3:18:11 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769668

WASHINGTON (July 13) - The Bush administration should move rapidly to bring other countries into the postwar occupation of Iraq to take the focus off American troops, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Sunday. ``We have to diffuse the perception in reality of American occupation,'' Kerry, one of nine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on CNN's ``Late Edition.'' ``The obligation of the United States government is to rapidly internationalize the effort in Iraq, get the target off of American troops, bring other people, particularly Muslim-speaking and Arab-speaking Muslim troops, into the region,'' Kerry said. ``The president clearly doesn't have a plan to do that, and we're paying a price for it,'' he said. Kerry also said the controversy this week over Bush's State of the Union address raises ``enormous questions'' about the quality of U.S. intelligence gathering. The administration acknowledged that a British claim of Iraqi uranium shopping in Africa should not have been included in the State of the Union address because it had been questioned by U.S. intelligence sources. CIA Director George Tenet took responsibility Friday for allowing the statement to remain in the address. Kerry said Tenet's statement doesn't ``answer the question or questions about what really happened.'' Another Democratic contender, Florida Sen. Bob Graham, said Vice President Dick Cheney first asked the CIA to determine whether Saddam Hussein's government was trying to obtain uranium from the African country of Niger. He said Cheney must have been given a report on the investigation by Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who went to Niger last year and concluded that the government had not contracted to sell uranium to Iraq. Administration officials have said the White House had no knowledge of Wilson's report. ``That stretches belief,'' Graham, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on NBC's ``Meet the Press.'' 07/13/03 12:08 EDT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.