A retired Army general Tuesday criticized President Bush’s pre-emptive strike foreign policy, saying it has distracted the United States from the real war on terror and alienated it from the rest of the world. Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy told a group of 15 at a downtown Colorado Springs coffee shop that Americans must elect a leader to rebuild coalitions damaged by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. If John Kerry is elected, Kennedy said, “the international community will meet us halfway. They’ll be so delighted to work with someone who will treat them with mutual respect, rather than the current administration’s...