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Last Friday in his speech at Temple University in Philadelphia, John Kerry as usual repeated one of the preposterous canards of his campaign, saying “We have alienated our allies, and we are going it alone.’’
Mark R. Levin fact-checks this via counts of troops in the US-led coalition that fought the Korean War, versus those for Iraq. I’ve added the percentages.
Well, look at that. US forces made up 90% of coalition troops in Korea, versus just 84% in Iraq. That shows the Iraq coalition is even more multilateral than the Korean coalition.
Also, the Korean coalition included only 15 nations, versus 32 in Iraq.
Also, look how much help France contributed to the Korean effort: a big, giant 0.3%. That’s 3-tenths of one percent! Gee, whatta drag that we don’t have all that help this time around.
What is Kerry smoking? Doesn’t he know what “unilateral” means?
unilateral
adj.
1. Of, on, relating to, involving, or affecting only one side: a unilateral advantage in defense (New Republic).
2. Performed or undertaken by only one side: unilateral disarmament.
It’s not unilateral if there are 30+ countries involved.
You’d think if Kerry doesn’t know this, at least the NY TIMES would.
The Left can make fun of Bush pronouncing “nuclear” the way people say it in Texas, for month after month. But somehow the NY TIMES can’t bring itself to point out that Kerry doesn’t know the meaning of the word “unilateral.”
I’ve posted frequently that it looks like Kerry has no idea what he’s talking about. Others are now saying the same thing. John Armor at ChronWatch fact-checks the rest of Edwards’ speech, asking:
We only had seven allies with us at the end of World War II. Hasnt Kerry ever read a history book?
Read the whole thing.
