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September 24, 2004

John Kerry's Iraq Policy, 1997 Beta Version 1.5: "Unilateralism Rocks!"

I actually think I posted this before, but it bears repeating:

John Forbes Kerry, 1997: "We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians. We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest."

The link to the CNN interview in which he said this -- undoubtedly "misled" into making this arrogant, unilateralist warmonger remark by the sitting Governor of Texas at the time, George W. Bush -- at Alarming News.

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