Kerry: Bush Made Wrong Choices on Iraq
时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2004(下)--美国大选
By Jim Malone
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says President Bush has made a series of wrong choices on Iraq and he vowed 2 to take a new direction if elected in November.
Senator Kerry said President Bush made a catastrophic choice by invading Iraq and he outlined what he says are a series of Bush administration miscalculations, from doing a poor job of winning international support to not anticipating the post-war turmoil 3.
Mr. Kerry also criticized the president for the cost of the war in Iraq, not only in American military casualties, but in the mounting financial cost as well.
"$200 billion for Iraq, but they tell us we can't afford health care for our veterans. $200 billion for Iraq, but they tell us we can't afford to keep the 100,000 new police we put on the streets during the 1990s. Well, we are here today to tell them, they are wrong and it is time to lead American in a new direction," he said.
Senator Kerry spoke 4 at the same location in Cincinnati where President Bush made an important pre-war speech in 2002, justifying 5 action against Iraq.
The Massachusetts Democrat 1 said if elected, he would make major changes in U.S. policy in Iraq including getting allies to share the cost of rebuilding the country and speeding up the training of the Iraqi police and military.
"We need to behave like we really are a nation at war and we need to get other people to behave that way with us," he added. "We need to get more people in greater numbers ready to take over the job of protecting their own country. That is what I will do as commander in chief because that is the right way to get the job done and bring our troops home!"
Iraq and the war on terrorism have dominated the U.S. election campaign this week. In addition to increasingly aggressive exchanges between Mr. Kerry and the president over Iraq, the two campaigns have also had bitter exchanges over the war on terrorism.
On Tuesday, Vice 6 President Dick Cheney said the wrong vote in November could lead to more terrorist attacks in the United States, an apparent reference to Senator Kerry. Mr. Kerry's vice presidential running mate, Senator John Edwards, responded that, in his words, Mr. Cheney's "scare tactics crossed the line" and that protecting the country from terrorists is not a partisan 7 issue.
Senator Kerry will continue to talk about Iraq and the economy on his swing through several key states in the election, including Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri.
Jim Malone with the Kerry Campaign
Cincinnati, Ohio
注释:
a series of 一系列
catastrophic 灾难性的
miscalculation 误算
anticipate 预见
turmoil 混乱
Cincinnati 辛辛那提
dominate 操纵
Minnesota 明尼苏达州
Iowa 爱荷华州
Missouri 密苏里州
- The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
- About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
- He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
- I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
- His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
- The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- He admitted it without justifying it. 他不加辩解地承认这个想法。
- The fellow-travellers'service usually consisted of justifying all the tergiversations of Soviet intenal and foreign policy. 同路人的服务通常包括对苏联国内外政策中一切互相矛盾之处进行辩护。