Kenney an embarrassment to US — Erap 09/02/2011

Kenney an embarrassment to US — Erap

09/02/2011
Former President Joseph Estrada yesterday called former US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney “an embarrassment to the American government as she forgot the American ideals of democracy” in an angry reaction to a secret cable published by anti-secrecy Web site Wikileaks.

Estrada assailed Kenney, who stepped down as US ambassador to Manila last year, after she criticized the late President Corazon Aquino as only a “partial icon of morality.”

“This report shows that in her efforts to defend GMA (then President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo’s initials), she deliberately misled the American government from seeing that former President Cory Aquino and our people were fighting for a real democracy for our country,” Estrada, in a statement, noted.

He said the assessment of Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario is on the dot, as Del Rosario was quoted as saying that Kenney was “a dismal failure” as an ambassador to the Philippines..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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