Foreign Leaders to Kerry: Drop Dead!

Kerry claims he's the superior diplomat, promoting increased support from America's allies. I don't think so!--Mudville Gazette assembles a tremendous compilation of Kerry quotes and the response from abroad. Example:

John Kerry:

I think we need a president who has the credibility to bring the allies back to the table and to do what's necessary to make it so America isn't doing this alone.

French Foreign Minister Barnier:

Even though Nato last week overcame members' long-running reservations about a training mission to Iraq and agreed to set up an academy there for 300 soldiers, neither Paris nor Berlin will participate.

Michel Barnier, the French foreign minister, said last week that France, which has tense relations with interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, had no plans to send troops "either now or later".

Germany's Gert Weisskirchen [foreign policy expert from ruling party]:

I cannot imagine that there will be any change in our decision not to send troops, whoever becomes president.

Read the whole thing. (via KerryHaters)

John Miller and Mark Molesky say the same in Monday's New York Post:

Kerry may want to bring the French to the table, but guess who's coming to dinner with them: terrorists and rebels now attacking U.S. soldiers and slaughtering Iraqi citizens. Chirac and Barnier, in short, want a recipe for failure: An international conference that either flunks Kerry's "global test" because of France's refusal to attend, or one that features the credentialed henchmen of Muqtada al-Sadr demanding resolutions for the immediate removal of American troops from Iraq.

And beyond America's nominal allies, Kerry's already been rebuffed by America's enemies:

Iran on Sunday rebuffed a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability.

Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said it would be "irrational" for Iran to put its nuclear program in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad.

John Kerry's foreign policy is DOA--25 days before the election! How is this better than Bush?