Kerry rips GOP for lying about Foley, Iraq

Washington, D.C.

Sen. John Kerry says that Republicans have lied repeatedly about the congressional page scandal, the war in Iraq, and the handling of North Korea.

"A lie, a lie, a lie, a lie. What we have in Washington is a house of lies, and in November, we need to clean house," Kerry said during the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual fall fundraising dinner.

"They tell us we're making progress in Iraq and that there is no civil war. That is a lie," he said. "It's immoral to lie about progress in that war in order to get through a news cycle or an election cycle."

The Bush administration blamed the North Korean nuclear test on former President Clinton. Kerry wasn't happy about that either.

"That is a lie. North Korea's nuclear program was frozen under Bill Clinton. When George W. Bush turned his back on diplomacy, Kim Jong Il turned back to making bombs, and the world is less safe because a madman has the Bush bomb," he said.

Republicans blamed the Foley scandal on Democrats and Kerry said "This issue is here because of a Republican cover-up," he said. "And those from the party that preaches moral values that covered this up have no right to preach moral values anymore."