Sen. Levin Blames NATO Reluctance on Bush (chickens coming home to roost)

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Sen. Levin Blames NATO Reluctance on Bush
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: June 25, 2004


Filed at 6:06 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee expressed frustration with NATO on Friday for not playing a bigger role in the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The committee's top Democrat said it was just ``chickens coming home to roost'' for the Bush administration.

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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said he'd met with NATO ambassadors, urged them to take a role in Iraq and sensed that some of their reluctance ``results from the unilateral approach the United States has taken to world challenges, minimizing the importance of coalitions.''

``To some extent the reluctance here represents chickens coming home to roost,'' Levin said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Congress-Iraq.html

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1. I Really Like Carl Levin - He is A Solid Guy