Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Where is Kerry? Where is Kerry?
Here he is! Here he is!
Addendum: I forgot to put the link. Argh. Thanks to Lisa it has been fixed
The Bush doctrine, now ratified by both houses of Congress, radically alters more than 30 years of American Middle Eastern diplomacy. It puts the U.S., for the first time, flatly on the Israeli side of the post-Six-Day War dispute. Not surprisingly, Sharon hailed this as "a great day in the history of Israel."
Only three senators voted against the pro-Israel resolution: ex-Klansman Robert Byrd of West Virginia, John Sununu of New Hampshire and independent James Jeffords of Vermont. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, skipped the ballot. So did only one other senator: John Kerry. He was in California.
Addendum: I forgot to put the link. Argh. Thanks to Lisa it has been fixed
