John F. Kerry says he “doesn’t envision” sending any more troops to Iraq, because when he gets finished bowing and scraping to France and Belgium and Kofi Annan and the dictators of the Arab world, they’re all going to love us again: Kerry Envisions No More U.S. Troops for Iraq. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

“I don’t envision it,” he said on Sunday when asked if he would send more U.S. soldiers. “I believe that my leadership and my plan to approach these countries — and I’m not negotiating it publicly — I know what I want to do. I know what I believe can be achieved.”

Kerry has argued that Bush alienated traditional U.S. allies by invading Iraq without their support and without United Nations backing that they were unwilling to bail him out now. He said he would offer them real partnership that would attract practical support from NATO allies and the United Nations.

“We’ve lost respect, we’ve lost influence,” he said as he made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows with his running mate North Carolina Sen. John Edwards while on a two-week, 3,500-mile post-convention trip through battleground states.

“I know that I can do a better job of providing a rationale for those countries to understand their stake in the outcome and I believe we can put together a very different kind of alliance,” Kerry said.