KERRY’S INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF MYSTERYMystery Solved: Despite International Man Of Mystery’s Repeated Claims, Foreign Diplomats Don’t Recall Meeting
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Posted on 10/25/2004 10:38:49 AM PDT by RWR8189
KERRY’S INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF MYSTERY
Mystery Solved: Despite International Man Of Mystery’s Repeated Claims, Foreign Diplomats Don’t Recall Meeting
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KERRY CLAIMS HE MET WITH SECURITY COUNCIL:“I met with the Security Council of the United Nations in the week proceeding the [use of force] vote in the Senate.” (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks To ‘UNITY: Journalists Of Color’ Conference, Washington, DC, 8/5/04)
IN FACT, “NO SUCH MEETING … EVER OCCURRED”: “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.” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
PERHAPS IT WAS JUST KERRY DREAMING: ““[A] Kerry adviser told me, only slightly in jest, that Kerry's most tempting fantasy is to attend the G-8 summit.” (Matt Bai, “Kerry's Undeclared War,” The New York Times Magazine, 10/10/04)
Kerry Claims He Met “With Members Of The Security Council” And “Talked To Them All.” “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. I came away convinced that, if we worked at it, if we were ready to work and letting Hans Blix do his job and thoroughly go through the inspections, that if push came to shove, they'd be there with us.” (Sen. John Kerry, Second Presidential Debate, St. Louis, MO, 10/8/04)
Kerry Said “Friends In New York” Got Him Invited To “Meet With The Security Council” Before Casting His October 2002 Vote For Use Of Force In Iraq. “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.” (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks To Council On Foreign Relations, New York, NY, 9/3/03)
Kerry Said He “Met With The Entire Security Council” At One Time For “Two Hours.” “I spent a lot of time before the vote looking at this issue. I went up to the United Nations at the request of some friends. And I met with the entire Security Council in a room just like this at a table like this. I spent two hours with them. (inaudible), just me and the Security Council, asking them questions.” (Sen. John Kerry, Interview With Boston Globe Editorial Board, http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/interview/, 12/10/03)
Kerry Told Journalists’ Conference He “Met With The Security Council” Before Vote. “I believe in my heart of hearts and in my gut that this president fails that test in Iraq. And I know this because I personally, and others, were deeply involved in the effort with other countries to bring them to the table. I met with the Security Council of the United Nations in the week proceeding the vote in the Senate. I voted to hold Saddam Hussein accountable because, had I been president, I would have wanted that authority, because that was the way to enforce the U.N. resolutions and be tough with the prospect of his development of weapons of mass destruction.” (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks To ‘UNITY: Journalists Of Color’ Conference, Washington, DC, 8/5/04)
Kerry Said Meeting Included French, British, Germans “And The Others” On Security Council. “I met with the security council personally one week before the vote, and I asked the French ambassador and the British and the Germans and the others, ‘What are you prepared to do?’ And all of them said they were prepared to stand up and enforce the resolutions of the United Nations, but they wanted the time to do it properly.” (Sen. John Kerry, Interview With The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.columbusdispatch.com/election/election-president.php?story=dispatch/2004/09/26/20040926-A17-00.html, 9/26/04)
Newspaper Investigation Uncovers Truth: Kerry Never Had Meeting With Security Council As He Has Described Numerous Times. “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.” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
Four U.N. Ambassadors “Said They Had Never Met Mr. Kerry.” “[O]f the five ambassadors on the Security Council in 2002 who were reached directly for comment, four said they had never met Mr. Kerry. The four also said that no one who worked for their countries' U.N. missions had met with Mr. Kerry either. The former ambassadors who said on the record they had never met Mr. Kerry included the representatives of Mexico, Colombia and Bulgaria. The ambassador of a fourth country gave a similar account on the condition that his country not be identified.” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
ü Colombian Ambassador “Never Heard Of Anything” Regarding Such A Meeting. “Ambassador Andres Franco, the permanent deputy representative from Colombia during its Security Council membership from 2001 to 2002, said, ‘I never heard of anything.’ Although Mr. Franco was quick to note that Mr. Kerry could have met some members of the panel, he also said that ‘everything can be heard in the corridors.’” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
ü Mexican Ambassador Flatly Said “There Was No Meeting With John Kerry.” “Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Mexico's then-ambassador to the United Nations, said: ‘There was no meeting with John Kerry before Resolution 1441, or at least not in my memory.’ All had vivid recollections of the time frame when Mr. Kerry traveled to New York, as it was shortly before the Nov. 7, 2002, enactment of Resolution 1441, which said Iraq was in ‘material breach’ of earlier disarmament resolutions and warned Baghdad of ‘serious consequences as a result of its continued violations.’” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
ü Bulgaria’s Ambassador Also Denies Meeting With Kerry. “Stefan Tafrov, Bulgaria's ambassador at the time, said he remembers the period well because it ‘was a very contentious time.’” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
“Asked Whether The International Body Had Any Records Of Mr. Kerry Sitting Down With The Whole Council, A U.N. Spokesman Said That ‘Our Office Does Not Have Any Record Of This Meeting.’” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
U.S. Officials In New York Unaware Of Kerry’s Meeting. “A U.S. official with intimate knowledge of the Security Council's actions in fall of 2002 said that he was not aware of any meeting Mr. Kerry had with members of the panel. An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations remarked: ‘We were as surprised as anyone when Kerry started talking about a meeting with the Security Council.’” (Joel Mowbray, “Security Council Members Deny Meeting Kerry,” The Washington Times, 10/25/04)
LA COLLECTION DE L’HOMME
INTERNATIONAL DE MYSTÈRE:
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY VI: http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=4102
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY V: http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/read.aspx?ID=4015
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY IV: http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=4010
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY III: http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/read.aspx?ID=3983
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY II:http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=3960
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY I: http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/read.aspx?ID=3362
Kerry Security Council BS Reference
Kerry would not lie, just as a bear would not take a crap in the woods.
All of these have two things in common -- 1) they're things Kerry has claimed in this campaign as important personal memories/anecdotes, and 2) none of them are true. Kerry lives in a fantasy world where he is a Forrest Gump kind of character who happens to be on the scene of every major event... only he wasn't. Therefore, he's gone beyond Gump and is fully in the Baron von Munchhausen realm of self-delusion.
Of course, that's the kindest explanation. A less generous interpretation is that he lies his a** off for political gain.
Kerry is the International U.N man
"Integrity, integrity, integrity -- if I told you once, I told you a thousand times and you never listened to me."
Kerry the pathological liar.
Rush was pounding on this lie today as well. Kerry has gone from "mis-representations", and mis-statements, to outright lying. What a slimeball.
And to think that at least 45% of the voting public may very well vote for him....ugh
"I came away convinced that, if we worked at it, if we were ready to work and letting Hans Blix do his job and thoroughly go through the inspections, that if push came to shove, they'd be there with us.”
This reveals Kerry knows NOTHING of the REAL international situation...
BTTT
Kerry: The Baron Von Munchausen of the 21st Century!
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