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February 29, 2004
Kerry | Kerry's Discussion With The Daily News

The Daily News reports about a “wide-ranging discussion” between the Daily News Editorial Board and John Kerry.

According to the Daily News:

Kerry (D-Mass.) said he would have sent troops to Haiti even without international support to quell the revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

“President Kerry would never have allowed that to get where it is,” Kerry said, though he added he’s not “a big Aristide fan.”

But he insisted the White House “has empowered the insurgents, and they’ve done it quite purposely out of their dislike … for Aristide.”

A Kerry administration would have given the rebels a 48-hour ultimatum to come up with a peaceful agreement - “otherwise, we’re coming in,” he said.

“I would intervene with the international community, and absent an international force, I’d do it unilaterally,” he said, adding the most important thing was to protect democracy.

Kerry also suggested Bush sat on December’s deal to have Khadafy renounce weapons programs to get a political boost. “Khadafy’s been trying to get back into the mainstream for several years now,” Kerry said. “There’s evidence that we could have had that deal some time ago.”

As proof, he said he’d heard “from friends in the British government that the deal was in a slow lock,” although he declined to give specifics to back it up.

The Daily News also reported that Kerry seemed to flip-flop on his opinion of Israel’s controversial security fence, insisting that a past comment questioning the fence was “a not very artfully drawn paragraph” that reflected “the rush of the campaign.” He insisted he “completely supports” the fence and only questioned where it’s built.



Posted by Dan Spencer at February 29, 2004 12:38 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Is there any evil dictator that John Kerry DOESN‘T support!? The more evil you are the more love Kerry gives you?

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at February 29, 2004 02:08 PM

“adding the most important thing was to protect democracy.”

No, Americans are the most important thing for the president to protect.

Posted by: jones at February 29, 2004 02:23 PM

I’m a Kerry/Edwards supporter here is south Florida, I will be there at the Town Hall Discussion on the 9th at BCC. I have been inspired by Senator Kerry and his message to make a cool multimedia CD (audio/video/ & links to johnkerry.com.) you can see it at www.jwml.com and also download a full copy with cool Kerry features aimed at getting people to the johnkerry.com site. I have burned every CD I can get my hands on and distributed them to anyone who will take them (more people want them than I have CD’s ) so I put it on my website. I hope it helps the cause and if there is anything else I can do to help I am happy to help.

Posted by: rwashburn [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 9, 2004 12:41 AM

I’m a Kerry/Edwards supporter here is south Florida, I will be there at the Town Hall Discussion on the 9th at BCC. I have been inspired by Senator Kerry and his message to make a cool multimedia CD (audio/video/ & links to johnkerry.com.) you can see it at www.jwml.com and also download a full copy with cool Kerry features aimed at getting people to the johnkerry.com site. I have burned every CD I can get my hands on and distributed them to anyone who will take them (more people want them than I have CD’s ) so I put it on my website. I hope it helps the cause and if there is anything else I can do to help I am happy to help.

Posted by: rwashburn [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 9, 2004 12:42 AM

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