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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (31896)	10/25/2004 1:52:11 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

When reached for comment last week, an official with the Kerry campaign stood by the candidate's previous claims that he had met with the entire Security Council. But after being told late yesterday of the results of The Times investigation, the Kerry campaign issued a statement that read in part, "It was a closed meeting and a private discussion." A Kerry aide refused to identify who participated in the meeting. The statement did not repeat Mr. Kerry's claims of a lengthy meeting with the entire 15-member Security Council, instead saying the candidate "met with a group of representatives of countries sitting on the Security Council." Asked whether the international body had any records of Mr. Kerry sitting down with the whole council, a U.N. spokesman said that "our office does not have any record of this meeting." A U.S. official with intimate knowledge of the Security Council's actions in fall of 2002 said that he was not aware of any meeting Mr. Kerry had with members of the panel. An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations remarked: "We were as surprised as anyone when Kerry started talking about a meeting with the Security Council." Jean-David Levitte, then France's chief U.N. representative and now his country's ambassador to the United States, said through a spokeswoman that Mr. Kerry did not have a single group meeting as the senator has described, but rather several one-on-one or small-group encounters. He added that Mr. Kerry did not meet with every member of the Security Council, only "some" of them. Mr. Levitte could only name himself and Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock of Britain as the Security Council members with whom Mr. Kerry had met. One diplomat who met with Mr. Kerry in 2002 said on the condition of anonymity that the candidate talked to "a few" ambassadors on the Security Council.

To: longnshort who wrote (31896)	10/25/2004 1:53:01 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Ambassador Andres Franco, the permanent deputy representative from Colombia during its Security Council membership from 2001 to 2002, said, "I never heard of anything." And he added " I wasn't snorting anything in the bathroom either".

To: longnshort who wrote (31896)	10/25/2004 2:23:39 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Hey, when the prez is away the VP sits in; when the VP is away someone else sits in. What's interesting here is that all of them can be away and an aide will sit in. I'm not sure what you're so fixiated with here, but you would agree that it is possible to meet with several ambassadors of the UN Security Council, several aides of ambassadors not present, etc. and still have a viable claim of having met with members of the Security Council. That's why these stupic GOPwinger claims of Kerry and Edwards missing Senate meetings is so absurd. In their absence were aides. Now I don't know how anyone can be a top dog anywhere without the assistance of aides who represent and often speak for the top dog himself. Otherwise, don't you think we'd be seeing Bush do more press conferences? Instead we get the mouthpiece at the daily presidential press briefings, not the top dog. You will agree that things work like this, won't you?