John Kerry has no problem criticizing Bush for unilateral action in Iraq in order to establish democracy (although it's not unilateral, just not universal). However, he has no problem with real unilateral action when the principle is "protecting democracy". Hat Tip to LGF.

Kerry's Haiti jab

A Kerry administration would have given the rebels a 48-hour ultimatum to come up with a peaceful agreement - “otherwise, we’re coming in,” he said.

“I would intervene with the international community, and absent an international force, I’d do it unilaterally,” he said, adding the most important thing was to protect democracy.

Hmmm, shades of our policy in Vietnam don't you think?

And for the tinfoil hat wing of the Democrat party - Kerry throws out more evil Bush conspiracy theories:

Kerry also suggested Bush sat on December's deal to have Khadafy renounce weapons programs to get a political boost. "Khadafy's been trying to get back into the mainstream for several years now," Kerry said. "There's evidence that we could have had that deal some time ago."

As proof, he said he'd heard "from friends in the British government that the deal was in a slow lock," although he declined to give specifics to back it up.