Posted on 03/05/2006 4:31:56 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Kerry: U.S. Must 'End the Empire of Oil'
56 minutes ago
Sen. John Kerry said Sunday that the United States must rebuild the power of the United Nations and help "end the empire of oil" to defeat terrorism.
Kerry, who lost to President Bush in the 2004 presidential election, avoided explicit criticism of the U.S. administration during a wide-ranging speech on the global dynamics of terrorism. But he said Bush's policy of imposing democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan risked looking like a crusade in Arab, Muslim eyes.
"If it is seen as the result of an army marching through Muslim lands, it will fail," Kerry told an audience at the University of Ulster in Londonderry, the second-largest city in Northern Ireland.
The "war on terror," Kerry said, was not principally about the U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, but was "fundamentally a war within Islam for the heart and soul of Islam, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia." He said terrorist threats against the West and within Muslim nations exist in part because "no center of moral authority has emerged to stop those who would murder in the name of Islam."
But Kerry suggested the current focus on American-led military interventions was not the way to promote stable democracies in the Middle East, a region of dictatorships underpinned by oil money. Sustainable political change required concerted international political pressure combined with appropriate development aid.
"Great American presidents, from Roosevelt to Truman to Kennedy, understood that success requires a community of nations working together, drawing strength from shared sacrifice and steadfast commitment to our shared ideals," he said.
He added that "great alliances" should be formed again and "that means strengthening and reforming — not weakening and walking away from — the ability of the UN
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If this war is all about oil, why are we paying nearly $2.50 a gallon?
You go first, Mr. Kerry.
Kerry's a real London-derrier !!!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Well, they're not called limosine libs fer nuthin', right?
Dear John Kerry,
Please end the empire of Ketchup!!!
Signed,
UNNNGHHHHH
"Sen. John Kerry said Sunday that the United States must rebuild the power of the United Nations"
Unbelievable. Boy did we miss a collision.
I'm assuming the hypocrite arrived in Ireland aboard a ship with sails.
"a war within Islam for the heart and soul of Islam"
Say What?
When will he and the Massachusetts congressional delegation vote to open ANWAR..and push for Nuclear energy, and fund research & development of fusion energy..."never" is the answer...this clown will consult with France first. Afterall, he is French looking, right?
"Sen. John Kerry said Sunday that the United States must rebuild the power of the United Nations"
Why? Since its beginning, the United Nations has proven to be as worthless as a t*t on a boar. All it can do is vacuum up money and cause untold corruption for tin horn dictators and keep third world nations in the cesspool.
Maybe that's what John Kerry likes....moving amongst the waste of socialist and communist dictators?
Turn the UN into condo's, that's how we can re-build the UN I say!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
We need to end Americas dependence on democrats.
Does anyone even care what this blabbering idiot has to say anymore?
" an army marching through Muslim lands....."
Yeesh, is Kerry into his "Ghengis Khan" rant again?
We need the "Aw not this sheet again!" guy. ha.
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