Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become "a sort of international pariah."
The statement came as the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee responded to a question about whether the U.S. government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.
Kerry said the Bush administration has failed to adequately address a number of foreign policy issues.
"When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy," Kerry said.
"So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today."
Meanwhile the Iranian newspapers have his face printed on the front page:
Only this man could trust the Iranians more then he does the President and this country. As he did during Vietnam, he is making his bed with those who hate America. From Communism to radical Islam, Kerry hasn’t found a tyrant or a dictator he didn’t want to hug.
One sentence of Kerry’s that many are highlighting is this one:
"When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy," Kerry said.
Funny thing is, he voted down Kyoto in 1997 and Bush has spent more on aid to Africa to fight AIDS then Clinton did in 8 years. Do you think he knows this? Or is he really this stupid.
He took the time to scold the Bush administration for its lack of effort on AIDS and other diseases in Africa. However, Bush has already spent more on these issues than the last Democratic administration did in eight years. Humanitarian aid to Africa comprised $1.4 billion a year at the end of the Clinton administration, but Bush has tripled that to $4 billion per year — and wants to more than double it over the next two years.
Yup, he really is this stupid.
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And Pelosi was on the front page too.
Did both the Iranians and Al Queda endorse the Dems last time around?