KERRY OVERSEAS FANS
Arnold Ahlert
NY POST
March 20, 2004 -- IT may be "none of your business" if you ask John
Kerry which foreign leaders told him they're rooting for him to defeat
President Bush. But a couple of leaders have taken it upon themselves
to reveal their affection for the Massachusettes senator anyway.
First up, Spain's new prime minister, Jose-Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. His
party was the surpirse winner in an election that turned on the 3/11
terror attack in Madrid. He has vowed to remove his 1,300 troops from
Iraq unless the mission there "is put under U.N. command."
That would be the same United Nations where the Oil-for-Food scandal -
billions in bribery and kickbacks from Saddam Hussein to various
diplomats, officials and politicians - is about to explode.
Next up, former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. At an
Islamic Summit Conference last October, he said that "Muslims will
forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews." He
too believes John Kerry would "keep the world safer than President
Bush." Safer for whom is a question that remains unanswered.
Apparently Sen. Kerry is having second thoughts about his
"international fan base." Kerry foreign policy advisor Rand Beers:
"This election will be decided by the American people, and the American
people alone . . . John Kerry does not seek, and will not accept, any
such endorsements."
What a difference a week makes.
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