Yahoo! News – Kerry Says U.S. Must ‘De-Americanize’ Iraq Policy
Democratic challenger John Kerry (news – web sites) said on Monday Washington needed to “de-Americanize” the transformation of Iraq (news – web sites) by replacing U.S. administrator Paul Bremer with someone like top U.N. aide Lakhdar Brahimi.
In some of his most detailed remarks on Iraq, Kerry told students at the University of New Hampshire he would be prepared to turn over authority for the political transformation of Iraq, and its reconstruction, to the United Nations.
But he said he would “hold on to the military security component under our command.”
“The absolute prerequisite which many of us have said many times, is getting more people involved, more people sharing the burden, more people sharing the risk, more people sharing the on-the-ground responsibility,” he said. “So my step is to work to internationalize it.”