Kerry Claims He Met with Security Council of United Nations over Iraq(OOPS - FOREIGN LEADER ALERT)

CNN (Unity Conference) ^ | 8/7/2004 | John Kerry / Unity Conference

[Alamo-Girl]

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[Mo1]

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[SandRat]

He was just there to get his orders.

From the way GW was eating that ear of corn down to the cob, shaking it, motioning with it I think maybe there were a set of orders there for Kerry. In his wife's own words in fact and to use the dried corn cob to do it.

[Steven W.]

VIDEO HERE

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[Steven W.]

Which country was he representing?

From the context of what he was saying, it sounds like he was working with France against the interests of the US - but my suspicion is the whole story is yet another LIE, this time told to the "diverse" media with national security and treasonous implications.

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[The Tin Man]

Someone showed me this link in which Kerry claims he was invited. Either he is repeating the lie or this is standard operating procedure. Have you found out any more on this issue?

http://www.cfr.org/pub6576/john_f_kerry/making_america_secure_again_setting_the_right_course_for_foreign_policy.php

AUDIENCE: Andy Nagorski, Newsweek. Senator, it's one thing to say that diplomacy on Iraq was bad. It's another to suggest that good diplomacy could have brought everybody along, as you seem to do. Do you think you really could have brought the Germans, the French along in a commitment to use force, if necessary, if you had been president?

KERRY: Yes. (Laughter, applause.)

NAGORSKI: Would you care to explain how, especially given --

KERRY: Absolutely. Absolutely and unequivocably.

NAGORSKI: If --

KERRY: I will explain. Let me explain to you very specifically.

Thanks to some friends in New York, I was invited to come up and meet with the Security Council in the week prior to the vote, and I wanted to do that, because I valued my vote. And I wanted to know what the real readiness and willingness of our partners was to take this seriously.

So I sat with the French and British, Germans, with the entire Security Council, and we spent a couple of hours talking about what they saw as the path to a united front in order to be able to deal with Saddam Hussein.

Now at the time, they were pushing for a second vote. But there was a way through that path, in my judgment, with patience and maturity and a readiness and a willingness to be serious. I don't think it took a lot of skill or analysis to understand that the politics of their populations at that time were not ready to move. And any president ought to understand the politics of other people's electorates, as you try to define how you get from here to there, which is the art of diplomacy.

Now I think patience could have said to the French or the Germans, "Okay, what do you need? What proof do you want? How long do we have to inspect? All right. Let's do that openly for the next month. We'll come back to the Security Council, and at that point, would you be ready?"

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