FULTON, Mo., April 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Friday offered an end strategy for the war in Iraq, saying the country had reached "a moment of truth."
"This moment in Iraq is a moment of truth," the Democratic presidential candidate told an audience at Westminster College in Missouri. "Not just for this administration, the country, the Iraqi people, but for the world. This may be our last chance to get it right. We need to put pride aside to build a stable Iraq."
Kerry's speech came four days after an address by Vice President Dick Cheney, who used occasion to launch an attack that the college's president said was "Kerry-bashing."
It also came one day before the anniversary of President Bush's announcement that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.
"The immediate goal is to internationalize the transformation of Iraq, to get more foreign forces on the ground to share the risk and reduce the burden of our own forces," he said. "That is the only way to succeed in the mission while ending the sense of an American occupation."
