This appears to be t…

This appears to be the breaking news I mentioned over the weekend. John Kerry, on numerous occasions dating back to at least October 2002, and as recent as the second Presidential debate, has defended his “record” on national security by noting that he met with all the members of the UN Security Council prior to his vote on the Iraq war, to find out how seriously they took their commitment to remove enforce the UN resolutions. He did this so that when it came time to vote to authorize force against Hussein, he’d carefully considered how serious the UN was. He said he “valued” his vote and wanted to understand the willingness of the world to take on Saddam Hussein.

Except that he didn’t.

The article linked above starts out this way:

U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.

An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred.

He used this ficticious meeting to try to show that he could do what he accused he Bush administration of not doing; bringing world leaders to his side (never mind the approximately 30 nations involved in the Iraq war). Kerry has said over and over that he would have prosecuted the war “better” than Bush, and this story is what he’s used, in part, to buttress that claim.

The walls have come tumblin’ down. The global test is just a smoke screen. Kerry wants to cede responsibility for our security to the UN so he doesn’t have to take the political fall. Is this the guy you want as a war president? I certainly hope not.

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