Kerry: Bush changing tune over Iraq
Senator John Kerry has described the Bush administration’s foreign policy as “reckless and arrogant”.
The man hoping to run as the Democrat Party’s presidential candidate said on Sunday that US president George Bush would be held accountable for the worst foreign policy decisions in America’s modern history.
The Massachusetts senator has won ten out of 12 primaries and caucuses to date. His only losses occured in South Carolina, to John Edwards, and Oklahoma, to Wesley Clark.
Kerry said: “This administration has run the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in the modern history of our country.
“We intend to hold them accountable.”
But Mr Bush, speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, said he would not back down.
“I won’t change my philosophy or my point of view.
“I believe I owe it to the American people to say what I’m going to do and do it, and to speak as clearly as I can, try to articulate as best I can, why I make decisions I make.
“But I’m not going to change because of polls.”
Mr Bush said Saddam Hussein was a dangerous madman and had to go.
Mr Kelly said that the president has changed his story: “He told America that Iraq had chemical weapons two months after his own Defence Intelligence Agency told him that there was, quote, ‘no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons.’ “
