Posted on 07/21/2003 2:42:00 PM PDT by Brian S
Kerry Says 'False Pride' Holding Bush Back in Iraq
Mon July 21, 2003 04:14 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry urged the Bush administration on Monday to seek U.N. support in stabilizing Iraq and questioned if "false pride" was delaying the move.
Kerry, a Massachusetts senator who is one of nine Democrats vying to challenge President Bush in 2004, told reporters the help of other nations was crucial in helping stabilize post-war Iraq.
He said "my blood boiled over" when he read in the New York Times on Saturday that some in the Bush administration might consider it humiliating to go to the United Nations for help after bypassing the world body before going to war in Iraq.
"You don't make a decision about protecting your own troops and winning your objectives based on false pride," he said in a conference call with reporters.
Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, said half of the names of the dead enshrined on the Vietnam war memorial in Washington stem "from the time that that kind of pride began to cloud the decisions in Vietnam."
The Bush administration has reacted coolly to suggestions that a new U.N. resolution could make it easier for nations to help Washington stabilize Iraq through troops or other means, saying existing resolutions give the U.N. cover to any country that wants to join the effort in Iraq.
Russia and other countries have suggested a new U.N. resolution might make countries more disposed to help.
Kerry said international help was crucial with American deaths continuing and the costs of policing the country mounting.
"Lives are at stake," he said. "We need to internationalize this and we need to do it now, we need to do it openly and we need to do it in order to defuse the sense of occupation and protect the troops."
Kerry, who supported a resolution giving Bush the authority to wage war in Iraq, has been critical of the administration's failure to gain wider international backing for the war effort.
Someone who belives unsourced accusations - from the NY Times no less - and "just happen" to fit the prejudices of the Times.
and he wants to be president.
It worked in VietNam. The trouble with that plan is that they assume that like them, we as a country, have learned nothing. If it were up to the educators, that would be the case. However, there are people with living memory of what it's like to live otherwise.
1. Confirms false accusations about the status of Iraq, its new council, and confirms American "failure."
2. The agenda is little about security, more about "reconstruction" - that is, France and Germany maintaining and continuing the "oil for food" program, and coercing Iraqis via UN aegis to reconfirm the lucrative French and German oil contracts reliant on Saddam's legitimacy.
They call him John "French" Kerry. I don't think he knows he's pro-French, he's just a useful idiot for their propaganda. And the lefties are receptive to the rhetoric since they want to bash Bush - which is about all they understand to do about any issue.
Yeah, that's what I was going to ask.
Also, how does one tell "real pride" from "false pride," by flying flags, wearing lapel pins, singing patriotic songs? Oh, wait, the Left said that that was "jingoistic" and that flying flags and wearing pins made others feel uncoooooooooooomfortable.
-PJ
Kerry should be asked if he would follow the Security Council over Congress.
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Being too stubborn and full of yourself to admit you've screwed up or to ask for help.
Tia
So how does that differ from "real" pride?
Kerry's quoting unnamed sources in the NY Times?
What a fool.
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"Real" pride comes from competence. Or from a job well-done. Something genuine! Nothing wrong with that!
Tia
The way that Kerry uses the term "pride" is more indicative of a 'sinful' meaning to it, which doesn't lend to a 'true' and 'false' dichotomy. Pride is pride.
Also, if "false humility" is truly pride, then why isn't "false pride" true humility?
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