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To: calgal who wrote (4805)	12/17/2003 1:55:24 AM
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Kerry Proposes Way to Win War in Iraq Tuesday, December 16, 2003 WASHINGTON — Drawing on his experience in combat and foreign policy, Sen. John Kerry (search) says America needs a president who will not "walk away from a dangerous world" and who will not "walk alone." He pledged to be such a leader if elected president. In a speech Tuesday at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Kerry planned to criticize President Bush for leading U.S. troops into war in Iraq without support from major European allies, such as Germany and France. Kerry also criticized Howard Dean (search), without naming him, for Dean's opposition to the war, which Kerry supported. Speaking a few days after Saddam Hussein's capture, Kerry was to outline steps he says the United States should take to establish peace in an Iraq after Saddam. Although Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, praised the capture and U.S. troops stationed in Iraq (search), he warned problems for the United States lurk from within. "On one side is President Bush, who has taken America off onto the road of unilateralism (search)," Kerry says in excerpts of his prepared remarks. "On the other side are those in my own party who threaten to take us off on the road to retreat and retrenchment - to a kind of new isolationism (search) where the call for a multilateral approach is not a summons to collective security, but an excuse for inaction. "Instead, we need a president who will not walk away from a dangerous world - and a president who will not walk alone - but a president who will lead a new alliance of free nations to build a new era of security and peace," Kerry says. Kerry says the United States also needs a president "who will rally democratic countries to join in a lasting coalition" to address the ills of a new century, such as terrorism and drug trafficking, environmental destruction and epidemic diseases. Kerry's speech follows a foreign policy address on Monday by Dean, his contender. Dean's anti-war stance helped push him to the front of the field. He contradicted Bush by asserting that "the capture of Saddam has not made America safer." Several Democratic candidates also sought to burnish their foreign policy credentials in separate speeches Monday. Dean, Sen. John Edwards (search) of North Carolina and retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark (search) said more attention must be paid to Al Qaeda (search), the terrorist group responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. All three suggested that the illicit spread of nuclear weaponry is a greater threat to the United States than Saddam ever was. Dean and Edwards pledged to triple funds for securing Russia's nuclear arsenal, amid fears about its security since the breakup of the Soviet Union (search). Edwards and Clark threatened sanctions against nations that seek weapons of mass destruction in defiance of international accords. Sen. Joe Lieberman (search) of Connecticut, a forceful proponent of the war, criticized Dean's address, saying the former Vermont governor was in a "spider hole of denial," a reference to Saddam's hideout and Dean's assessment of the capture's impact. Lieberman was headed to Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday to give a speech about "the clear choices facing Democrats in this election on the economy and security." Kerry is a decorated Vietnam War (search) veteran who has spent 19 years as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and six years on the Senate Intelligence Committee. He also outlined a plan Tuesday for stabilizing Iraq now that Saddam is in U.S. custody. Kerry says he would seek to: -Give to the United Nations (search) the governance of Iraq and the transfer of its sovereignty, and reach out to European nations that opposed the war to broaden the international coalition supportive of operations in Iraq. -Increase the Army by 40,000 active-duty troops, and share responsibility with other countries for military operations in Iraq. -Establish a fair and transparent judicial process to hold Saddam accountable for his crimes and make a mixed tribunal of international judges, prosecutors and investigators to work alongside the Iraqis. -Rebuild the Iraqi security forces, which recently suffered a setback when more than a third of the U.S.-trained force of about 700 resigned due to unhappiness over salaries and other terms of employment.