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Kerry says 'world is waiting' for America it knows and loves APPLETON, Wisconsin, (AFP) Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry on Friday proclaimed that the world wants President George W. Bush out of the White House and the return of the United States "they know and love." In a new swipe at Republican Bush's muscular foreign policy, Kerry renewed his pledge to return the United States to the internationalism that marked its foreign policy for the second half of the 20th century. "The world is waiting for the United States of America they know and love," Kerry told a late-night rally of at least 5,000 supporters in the midwestern state of Wisconsin. Kerry saw Bush pounce on his remark in the second presidential debate that US action abroad should satisfy a "global test" of legitimacy, and proclaim a "Kerry doctrine" of foreign states wielding control over US action abroad. So Friday, he repeated the line he now inserts into every campaign appearance : "I will never cede the security of this country to any other nation or institution." "But you know the United States of America is most effective ... when we have friends and allies by our side and we move with other nations." Kerry told the crowd, braving chilly temperatures and sleet, that their judgement on election day, November 2, would be watched around the globe. "The world is waiting for what you are going to do. You don't just get to chose the president of the United States, you get to decide the leader of the free world." Kerry has accused Bush of ruining long-term US alliances with his policy of pre-emptive strikes against potential threats to the United States, and with his invasion of Iraq. Global opinion polls show that Bush's policies have stirred global resentment and that much of the world would prefer Kerry as the next US president. A collaborative polling exercise involving 10 newspapers around the world, including the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia, showed hostility directed not only at the Bush administration but also at the image of the United States. The project, initiated by Canada's Quebec-based La Presse newspaper, included France's Le Monde, The Guardian of Britain, Japan's Asahi Shimbun, Russia's Moscow News, Mexico's Reforma, Israel's Haaretz and Spain's El Pais. |
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