Security Council members deny meeting Kerry
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred.
At the second presidential debate earlier this month, Mr. Kerry said he was more attuned to international concerns on Iraq than President Bush, citing his meeting with the entire Security Council.
“This president hasn’t listened. 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, to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable,” Mr. Kerry said of the Iraqi dictator.
So, this is the Monday-morning blockbuster from the Times. Good catch but I’m not at all sure it’s going to resonate with the voting public, aside from those of us who are political junkies. And most of us can already come up with multiple instances of lies from Kerry.
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The man is shameless. So now, is his claimed heroism in Vietnam to be believed?
Another lie another day….BUT, there is a deeper resonating tone here. If you refer to his comments at the August 5th Unity Conference (not mentioned in the WT piece) you have the real meat. He spent this lecture indicating that Bush did not exhaust his UN related possibilities, and as a result did not fully understand the Iraq situation. He then uses his bogus meeting with the Security Council as a basis for laying down his position(s) on Iraq and his better comprehension of the way it should be handled.
In other words,…”I voted for it before I voted against it based on information that I never had, but claimed to have obtained…”
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Kerry said his Christmas Eve in Cambodia was seared into his memory. But it never happened. Are we going to elect to the presidency, with his finger on the nuclear trigger, a man who has hallucinations seared into his memory?