Posted on 08/07/2004 7:25:09 PM PDT by Steven W.
"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 preceding the vote in the Senate."
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Johnny K was meeting Coughing Anonymous in his capacity as a horse's ass, practising his favorite diplomatic philosophy-bendoverism.
He actually met twice with the Vietnamese Communists in Paris--once while on his honeymoon in 1970 and again in 1971.
I think if I was Powell I would demand an answer remember DeVillepan promised Frances compliance before the vote and then on the morning of the vote they changed there minds, backroom shenanigans by Kerry?
I don't know about taking donations .. but he was/is big on Iran's government .. I think he gave a speech over there
I'm still looking .. but I think I recall hearing Joe on Hardball bragging to Matthews about going/talking to member of the the UN about Iraq
Hey Howlin .. does this ring a bell?
This guy is something else, and I can't believe he had audacity to criticize Bush for 6-7 min reading to children after he knew of 9/11. I'd want to collect my thoughts and not tip off any children to panic too. Even the democrat principal said she admired Bush's cool, and wished she had voted for him.
Not to me; sounds more like that "government in waiting" we've always talked about.
There are some others who visited Iraq - and Syria- in September 2002. for some reason I only caught the Baghdad Trio trip but I just found this:
Incidentally, Tom daschle supposedly got his start in this guy's office:
-- "Former U.S. senator says attack on Iraq would be 'immoral' Abourezk part of group visiting Baghdad ," Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.delegation15sep15,1,6966712.story?coll=bal-iraq-storyutil
Associated Press Originally published September 15, 2002
BAGHDAD, Iraq - It would be immoral for America to attack Iraq without provocation, a former U.S. senator said here yesterday.
James Abourezk, who used to represent South Dakota in the Senate, was speaking to reporters after he, Democratic West Virginia Rep. Nick J. Rahall II and two other Americans met with Iraqi Health Minister Omed Medhat Mubarak.
The four-person delegation arrived overnight in Iraq, saying it intended to push for peace as well as the return of United Nations weapons inspectors.
It is the first time in several years that a sitting U.S. legislator has visited Iraq, which has been under U.N. sanctions since it invaded Kuwait in 1990.
"We are on a humanitarian mission ... not only to convince the Iraqi people that the American people are concerned with their suffering, but also to show that the American people, their vast majority, are peace-waging individuals," Rahall told reporters after flying in from Syria.
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After the meeting with the health minister, Abourezk criticized moves toward an attack on Iraq and said the United States was motivated by Israel.
"If America launched an attack on somebody without any provocation and declaration of war, then it will lose its moral standards," Abourezk said.
Israel has accused Iraq of sponsoring terror by financing the families of Palestinian suicide bombers and trying to smuggle weapons into the Palestinian areas.
Before the meeting with the health minister, Rahall said if he were to meet Iraqi officials, "it is my desire to stress upon the Iraqi government and its president that they must accept unconditional access to their country by U.N. weapons inspectors."....
...The delegation's trip is sponsored by the Institute for Public Accuracy, a Washington-based group of analysts.
The other delegates are Norman Solomon, the institute's executive director, and James Jennings, the president of Conscience International - an Atlanta-based rights group. Copyright © 2004, The Baltimore Sun
Mentions Sending Senate Colleague Joseph Biden, Chief Campaign Foreign Policy Adviser Rand Beers and Longtime Senate Aide Nancy Stetson
Sunday, Mar. 07, 2004
New York – Senator John Kerry tells TIME that he "almost certainly" will send a team to Iraq "within the next few weeks or months" to help him formulate his Iraq policy positions. "I may ask some Democratic colleagues and experts to go to Iraq and make this assessment so I have a strong basis on which to proceed," he tells TIME's Perry Bacon, Lisa Beyer and Karen Tumulty on his campaign plane from Washington, DC to Florida last week. He mentions Senate colleague Joseph Biden, chief campaign foreign policy adviser Rand Beers and longtime Kerry Senate aide Nancy Stetson. But, says White House communications director Dan Bartlett, Kerry's "mission to finally understand what is happening in Iraq reveals once again that (his) attacks are based on politics, not facts."
Thanks for the information!
"By Ronald Brownstein
Times Staff Writer
April 11, 2004 Early speculation about who might serve as Kerry's secretary of State centers mostly on candidates who fit that description: Richard C. Holbrooke and Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, former top officials in the Clinton administration; Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee; and, more distantly, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), whose commitment to traditional alliances now places him much closer to the center of thinking in the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
FEBRUARY 2002 : (BIDEN HOLDS FUNDRAISER AT THE HOME OF SADEGH NAMAZIKHAH) ...Biden held a campaign fund-raiser at the posh estate of Sadegh Namazikhah, an unofficial – or, at least, unregistered – pro-Iran lobbyist. The fund-raiser brought in $30,000, according to investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman, the man who recently wrote the best-selling book "Shakedown," about Jesse Jackson. According to Timmerman's report in Insight magazine, Biden delivered a sweeping condemnation of Bush's "Axis of Evil" formula.
Why would Biden court Iranian-Americans partial to the repressive, terror-supporting, totalitarian regime? --- "Biden joins 'Axis of Evil'," by Joseph Farrah, Posted: March 21, 2002, 1:00 a.m. Eastern, WorldNetDaily.com
MARCH 2002 mid month : (AIC, BIDEN, HAGEL, TORRICELLI)Just last week, the American-Iranian Council, a group backed by Conoco and other U.S. oil companies, feted Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., the only Republican official to criticize Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech. Biden was invited, along with Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J. --- "Biden joins 'Axis of Evil'," by Joseph Farrah, Posted: March 21, 2002, 1:00 a.m. Eastern, WorldNetDaily.com
JANUARY 24, 2004 : (WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, SWITZERLAND : BIDEN MEETS WITH IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KAMAL KHARRAZI) Tehran, Jan 24 - Senior US senator Joseph Biden criticized the American government's policies on Iran during a meeting with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ranking Democrat on the senate Foreign Relations Committee from Delaware, "stressed the importance of Iran and the role which it can play in the sensitive and volatile region" in the Middle East. Joseph Biden told the Iranian foreign minister that he hoped the existing problems between the Islamic Republic of Iran and America would be removed someday.
Kharrazi had a 90-minute meeting with Biden in a rare high-level contact between Tehran and Washington, which have held no official relations since the 1979 Islamic revolution, in full view of reporters in a lounge at the World Economic Forum. --- "US senator slams anti-Iran policies," IRIB News, 2004/01/24
Well you're no help .. *L* ... just kidding
This is gonna drive me nuts ... well back to researching
On Saturday, Oct 5, 2002, Kerry addressed the Iowa Democratic Party. So you can rule that day out.
Come on in and join the fun.
KARL: Now, John Kerry will be in Iowa tomorrow night speaking at the State Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson dinner. And what's interesting, Judy, is he will be on the stage with two other potential presidential hopefuls: John Edwards, who is very much for this resolution authorizing force against Iraq, and Howard Dean, the governor of Vermont who is very much against it.
We're told that Kerry will not come up with a decision by then. He's going to think about it over the weekend, and probably announce his decision on Monday.
Do you remember seeing Biden saying that he met with the UN Security council on Hardball?
Thank you Piasa.
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