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Kerry calls on bush truth about iraq Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20030710/ts_nm/iraq_usa_democrats_dc http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20030710/ts_nm/iraq_usa_democrats_dc Kerry Calls on Bush 'To Tell the Truth' About Iraq Thu Jul 10, 3:28 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic White House contender John Kerry called on President Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday "to tell the truth" about Iraq (news - web sites) -- including the fact that "the war is continuing and so are the casualties." The Massachusetts senator also urged Bush to acknowledge that "we lack sufficient forces to do the job of reconstruction in Iraq, and withdraw in a reasonable period," and need more help from allies. Kerry's critique was arguably the toughest so far by any of the four Democrats in the U.S. Congress who voted to authorize Bush to use force, and are now seeking their party's 2004 presidential nomination. The senator delivered his remarks shortly after the number of U.S. soldiers killed by hostile fire in Iraq since Bush declared the end to major combat on May 1 rose to 31. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has made a centerpiece of his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination the fact that he opposed the war while Kerry and three fellow White House contenders in Congress supported the use-of-force resolution -- Rep. Richard Gephardt (news, bio, voting record) of Missouri and Sens. John Edwards of North Carolina and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Kerry, speaking at a Capitol Hill news conference, said he had no regrets about his vote. "My vote was 100 percent the right vote," he said. "What I regret is that the president did such a bad job of diplomacy" before and after the fighting began in March, and failed to build a bigger international coalition, he said. "One of the reasons I'm running for president ... is to hold this president accountable for the lack of planning, lack of diplomacy, lack of strategy," Kerry said. "Clearly it's time for the president to step forward and tell the truth that the war is continuing and so are the causalities," Kerry said. DRUMBEAT OF CRITICISM A number of Democrats in Congress on Thursday continued their own drumbeat of criticism. "Iraq is fast becoming an urban guerrilla shooting gallery," said Sen. Robert Byrd (news, bio, voting record) of West Virginia, who has been a leading critic of the war. "It is time to go to the United Nations (news - web sites) and work to deploy a trained multinational peacekeeping force to cope with the perils of the occupation." House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said, "What is the post-war Iraq plan? If there is a plan, let's see what it is ... it might need to be revisited because it isn't working." The comments came just days after the White House acknowledged that Bush's claim in his State of the Union speech that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa was based on forged information. Bush cited Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as a chief reason for war, but no such arms have yet been found. Kerry called for "a thorough investigation" of the quality of U.S. intelligence "in order to re-establish the credibility of our own government."

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