To: Sully- who wrote (60508 ) 4/28/2005 7:08:41 PM From: American Spirit Respond to of 81568 Where's the lie? There isn't one. So not every member of the SC was there. Big deal. You guys are really stretching. "I traveled to New York a week ago. I met with members of the Security Council" John Kerry, speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, 3 December 2003 -- TRUE "I was invited to come up and meet with the Security Council in the week prior to the vote.... I sat with the French and British, Germans, with the entire Security Council"... John Kerry, speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, 3 December 2003 -- TRUE except the word "entire". He probably just met with the leaders, not the small country types. I'll give you he exaggerated with the word "entire" but so what? If he met with 2/3rds that's enough. "I met with the entire Security Council in a room just like this at a table like this." John Kerry, speaking to the Boston Globe, 10 December 2003 -- TRUE "I spent the time to go up and meet with Security Council representatives. I talked to them at great length prior to the vote..." TRUE John Kerry, speaking to campaign rallies as reported in the New Yorker, 19 July 2004 -- "I met with the Security Council of the United Nations in the week proceeding the vote in the Senate." John Kerry, speaking to the Unity: Journalists of Color Conference, 5 August 2004 -- TRUE "I met with the security council personally one week before the vote, and I asked the French ambassador and the British and the Germans and the others, ‘What are you prepared to do?’ And all of them said"... TRUE John Kerry, speaking to the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 26 September 2004 -- "I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them".... TRUE John Kerry, speaking to the American people in the second debate, 8 October 2004 --