March 20, 2004 -- IT may be "none of your business" if you ask John Kerry which foreign leaders told him they're rooting for him to defeat President Bush. But a couple of leaders have taken it upon themselves to reveal their affection for the Massachusettes senator anyway.
First up, Spain's new prime minister, Jose-Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. His party was the surpirse winner in an election that turned on the 3/11 terror attack in Madrid. He has vowed to remove his 1,300 troops from Iraq unless the mission there "is put under U.N. command."
That would be the same United Nations where the Oil-for-Food scandal - billions in bribery and kickbacks from Saddam Hussein to various diplomats, officials and politicians - is about to explode.
Next up, former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. At an Islamic Summit Conference last October, he said that "Muslims will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews." He too believes John Kerry would "keep the world safer than President Bush." Safer for whom is a question that remains unanswered.
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