[MadIvan]

Kerry and Edwards have both referred to you, our allies, as window dressing.

Please provide me with links to transcripts where they state this...much appreciated.

Regards, Ivan

[airborne]

"Kerry and Edwards have both referred to you, our allies, as window dressing."

We here do not think of you that way. We know who our friends are, and you are our best friend.

[mewzilla]

Here's one link. I'll see if I can find some others. It infuriated me.

[mewzilla]

Here's another link. From al Jazeera. Et tu, aJ? From the link:

Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry has blasted the US administration for shunning outside help in Iraq, adding the 30 countries with occupation forces there are “window dressing”.

Speaking after a series of deadly blasts killed scores of civilians in Baghdad and Karbala, Kerry blamed the continuing violence in Iraq on “the failure of his (President George Bush’s) unilateral, ideological policy”.

“Europe and the Arab nations all have fundamental interest in not having a failed Iraq. But George Bush has failed completely to bring them to the table in a serious way,” Kerry told CNN.

Asked about nations who have deployed occupation forces in the war-torn country, Kerry said, “The fact is that those countries are really window dressing to the greatest degree.