Kerry to spell out foreign policy, plans for Iraq in Friday speech

[Nicholas_J]

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - With Sen. John Kerry and President Bush sounding increasingly similar in their prescriptions for stability in Iraq, Kerry this week plans to call for a more defined United Nations role in the troubled country and greater participation from U.N. Security Council members such as France and Germany.

Kerry is scheduled to speak Friday at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., where on Monday Vice President Dick Cheney attacked Kerry's defense and foreign policy credentials.

Aides said Kerry's speech will spell out his foreign policy views in general, but will also draw specific distinctions with Bush over Iraq. The decision to talk about foreign policy appears to be last minute and comes after two weeks of virtual silence by Kerry on what to do in Iraq, even as conditions there grew increasingly grim.

Details of the speech were still being worked out Tuesday, but Kerry is expected to reiterate the formulation he's spelled out for Iraq before, including the need for greater U.N. participation

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/8534284.htm

[OneBlueSky]

1. why do it on a Friday? . . .

that's the day you release news you want killed . . . Kerry needs better staff work, imo . . .

[sangh0]

5. Here's a clue

why do it on a Friday?

Maybe you haven't heard, but Kerry was just recently invited as a result of Cheney's speech there. Since it was arranged in a hurry (less than 24 hours), that might explain the less than ideal timing. Just a guess, but I suspect Kerry's dance card is pretty filled up right now, and maybe Friday was the only time Kerry could make it.

[Nicholas_J]

7. Nope

Its the day you release news that you dont want many people to hear the oppositions rebuttal, as most people are not paying attention to this stuff on the weekend, as that is the time people are most prome to be away from media sources.

[IndianaGreen]

2. What's his excuse for his embrace of the Sharon-Bush axis of evil?

Meet the Press (NBC News) - Sunday, April 18, 2004

MR. RUSSERT: On Thursday, President Bush broke with the tradition and policy of six predecessors when he said that Israel can keep part of the land seized in the 1967 Middle East War and asserted the Palestinian refugees cannot go back to their particular homes. Do you support President Bush?

SEN. KERRY: Yes.

MR. RUSSERT: Completely?

SEN. KERRY: Yes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4772030

[sangh0]

6. Why don't you ask Howard Dean?

Who you support and who agrees with Kerry

[IndianaGreen]

9. I support Dennis Kucinich

and I will be voting for him on May 4 in our Democratic primary.

Have you read the NY Times article by General Odom where he says that those that advocate to "stay the course" in Iraq are repeating the same mistake we made in Vietnam?

[sangh0]

10. So you deny supporting Dean?

Tell the truth. I've got the links

[Classical_Liberal]

11. We all know she did. He dropped so she supports Kucinich

What the fuck is so bad about supporting either that you have to act like a grand inquisitor.

[IndianaGreen]

12. If you really have the links, in a "Big Brother" sort of way

then you would have known that ever since the ABC News debate, when Ted Koeppel disrespected Dennis Kucinich by referring to his candidacy as a "vanity campaign," I switched to Dennis in solidarity.

Dean has endorsed Kerry, a man that wants to "stay the course" in Iraq.

Kucinich wants to end the war.

This is a no brainer for a progressive!

[samadhi]

3. I can't wait

I am interested to hear why the UN would want to die for Bush's lies.

[sundancekid]

4. College Host Chides Cheney

... well, let's see: the Busheviks do another bait-and-switch, but this is ONLY about a speech -- never mind that it's at an historically symbolic venue (Churchill's Iron Curtain speech was delivered here) ...
sorta like "did you know there's more gambling in Casablanca?"

see more at links below: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45130-2004Apr26.html
http://www.wpxi.com/politics/3239036/detail.html

Go, John Kerry, go ... PLEASE get on your famous prosecutorial horse about foreign policy matters of substance and consequence, and DO NOT THINK we will EVER be satisfied with you giving us more bush-lite.
:mad:

[LSK]

8. Its pretty obvious to me

Once Bush is out of office and Kerry is in, you will see a drastic change in the UN and they will be more than willing to help us in Iraq and we can get out troops out of there. Why this is so hard for sheeple to figure out is beyond me. Maybe the sheeple are eating too many "freedom fries" ;)