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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (2452)	12/11/2003 9:23:06 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Bush sidestepped process on war in Iraq, Kerry says By Amy Fagan THE WASHINGTON TIMES Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry yesterday said President Bush "circumvented" the process laid out in the congressional resolution authorizing action against Iraq, which Mr. Kerry supported in the Senate last year. Mr. Kerry, of Massachusetts, said the president promised to build the international coalition, work through the United Nations and go to war as a last resort. "It is clear now that he didn't do that sufficiently," Mr. Kerry told reporters in a telephone conference call yesterday. He said the Iraq war resolution supported Mr. Bush exhausting diplomatic efforts before going to war, and working through the United Nations. "The president circumvented that process," he said, adding that Mr. Bush "did not give full meaning to the words 'last resort.' " Mr. Kerry defended his Senate vote in favor of the Iraq resolution, however, saying it was the right vote, "based on the information that we were given." He said he voted for it with the expectation that the United States would build an international coalition and exhaust other remedies before attacking. He said he was not voting to give Mr. Bush permission "to make an end run around the United Nations." * Bush distrusters, not haters, and for very good reasons. Bush has lied to and deceived us too many times.