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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (1709)	2/11/2004 9:41:40 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry wanted U.N. to lead U.S. troops Harvard paper unearths old interview, candidate favored elimination of CIA : February 11, 2004 The Harvard Crimson newspaper has unearthed a 1970 interview with John Kerry in which the then-congressional candidate said he favored eliminating the CIA and having the United States military deployed only by the authority of the United Nations. "I'm an internationalist," Kerry told The Harvard Crimson 10 months after returning home from Vietnam. "I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations." The Crimson said in a story today the decorated veteran "spoke in fierce terms during his daylong interview" Feb. 13, 1970, with the paper's Samuel Z. Goldhaber. Kerry, who enjoys a commanding lead for the Democratic presidential nomination, told Goldhaber he wanted "to almost eliminate CIA activity." "The CIA is fighting its own war in Laos and nobody seems to care," Kerry said. The Massachusetts senator's campaign did not comment on the remarks, the Crimson reported, but noted the candidate has said he supports the autonomy of the U.S. military and has not called for a scale-back of CIA operations. Kerry came across in the interview as "a fiery, novice politician inspired by his opposition to the Vietnam War," the campus paper said. Goldhaber told the Crimson yesterday, "He struck me as very ambitious. He struck me as the sort of person – even back then, newly returned from Vietnam – who was thinking about running for president." Former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich told the Crimson he thought Kerry's 1970 remarks were appropriate and "completely understandable" in the context of the Vietnam War. A spokesperson for President Bush's reelection campaign, however, said the statements showed Kerry's weakness on defense. "President Bush will never cede the best interests of the national security of the American people to anybody but the president of the United States, along with the Congress," said the spokesperson, Kevin A. Madden. Harvard grad Adam Clymer, political director of the National Annenberg Election Survey at the University of Pennsylvania, said he expects the comments to be useful to the Bush campaign. "If I were them, I'd use this," said Clymer. "I'd use it in direct mail." worldnetdaily.com