I have been pondering how best to verbally eviscerate John Kerry over his untimely and unseemly response to the speech given to a joint session of Congress by Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. My problem was the quest for perfection. I wanted to write the definitive dressing down of the candidate. But while I pondered, someone else took the prize. It is small consolation but at least I can know that I was beaten by the best. Maybe next time.

The title is "Kerry's looking for American failure - and he's it." The author Mark Steyn. Here's a couple of highlights before you go and read the rest.

Kerry didn't show up for Allawi's visit to Washington -- he was in Ohio again, which is evidently becoming the proverbial Vietnam-type quagmire for him. Nonetheless, barely had the prime minister finished than the absentee senator did a daytime version of his midnight ramble and barged his way onto the air to insist that he knew better than Iraq's head of government what was going on in the country.

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What a small, graceless man Kerry is. The nature of adversarial politics in a democratic society makes George W. Bush his opponent. But it was entirely Kerry's choice to expand the field, to put himself on the other side of Allawi and the Iraqi people.

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So for Kerry the new world war is just a wedge issue. After their schooling in Switzerland, those well-mannered English gels used to describe themselves as ''finished.'' If he wasn't ''finished'' after graduating from the Institut Montana in Zug in 1955, this week John Kerry is looking finished in a far more American sense.

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