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Religions > Atheism |
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"John Bradley" |
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19 Aug 2004 11:30:45 PM |
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Allies Not in Formation on Kerry's Troops Plan!! |
Allies Not in Formation on Kerry's Troops Plan
By Paul Richter and Maria L. La Ganga Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON ‹ Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry has
staked much of his campaign on a proposal he hopes will convince
voters that he can extricate the United States from Iraq more quickly
and at less cost than President Bush.
But Kerry's plan, which promises to effectively shift much of the Iraq
war burden from America to its allies, so far is failing to receive
the international support the proposal must have to succeed.
Kerry in recent appearances and interviews has been intensifying his
effort to spotlight what he sees as the Bush administration's mistakes
in Iraq ‹ especially the failure to broaden international involvement
‹
as a fundamental difference between the two candidates. But Kerry's
proposals depend on changing the minds of foreign leaders who do not
want to defy their electorates by sending forces into what many
consider to be a U.S.-made mess.
"I understand why John Kerry is making proposals of this kind, but
there is a lack of realism in them," Menzies Campbell, a British
lawmaker who is a spokesman on defense issues for the Liberal
Democratic Party, said in a typical comment.
Many allied countries may welcome a new team in Washington after years
of friction with the Bush administration. But foreign leaders are
making it clear they don't want to add enough of their own troops to
allow U.S. forces to scale back to a minority share in Iraq, as Kerry
has proposed....
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kerryiraq9aug09,1,7671568.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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