Kerry Says 'False Pride' Holding Bush Back in Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry urged the Bush administration on Monday to seek U.N. support in stabilizing Iraq and questioned if "false pride" was delaying the move.

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He said "my blood boiled over" when he read in the New York Times on Saturday that some in the Bush administration might consider it humiliating to go to the United Nations for help after bypassing the world body before going to war in Iraq.

"You don't make a decision about protecting your own troops and winning your objectives based on false pride," he said in a conference call with reporters.

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, said half of the names of the dead enshrined on the Vietnam war memorial in Washington stem "from the time that that kind of pride began to cloud the decisions in Vietnam."

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C'mon, Bush guilty of hubris?

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burlescone got invited to shrubs shit hole pig farm. burlesconi may be a corrupt fascist, but he has a sense of self preservation. the italian voters do not like the war.

... when is kerry going to admit that his pro-war vote was a mistake?

"Many of the media whores will continue to pretend to find contradictions in Kerry's support for the Iraq resolution and his warnings before the invasion and criticisms after. But they are appearing more ridiculous by the day, as the truth becomes clearer to American voters: the problem is not a resolution - it is that an untrustworthy, incompetent fraud occupies the White House."

Kerry gave the President every opportunity to do the right thing, and was shocked and awed by his incompetence at every stage. The resolution makes it clear that diplomatic solutions are to be exhausted. Bush failed to exhaust them and Kerry prodded him every step of the way. Put the blame where it rightly belongs.

It's not false pride that is keeping the pretzel from inviting the U. N. in.

Shrub doesn't have his looting system in place completely yet.

FOLLOW THE MONEY, KERRY.