Steve Pearce: “as I contemplate the debate from last week, I realize that again the Democrat nominee for President, Mr. Kerry…”

“as I contemplate the debate from last week, I realize that again the Democrat nominee for President, Mr. Kerry, continues to debate with himself. I was very amazed to learn throughout the debate that he was talking about the need for multilateral action, until it came to the one circumstance where we are engaged in multilateral action in which he felt we should go back to bilateral action. Now, that is, of course, in the case of Korea, and we found that the Mainland Chinese have been very, very effective at working with us to back the North Koreans down from the bluster and the rhetoric that they have thrown in front of the world stage for the past couple of years. Amazingly, in that circumstance, Mr. Kerry wants the Chinese to be quiet, and he wants the U.S. to go back to bilateral negotiations with the North Koreans. What that accomplishes is to give the North Koreans standing which they have not had in the past 2 years under the Bush doctrine. We give a terrorist state, a state that is starving its own people, a state that is incapable of making the changes in the government that are required to bring the nation into this century, and he would give them standing while moving the Mainland Chinese and our other allies off to the side. He did not explain that, and it was in complete contradiction with everything else he brought up during the debate. So, again, we find that the gentleman from Massachusetts continues to debate himself.”