Posted on 01/27/2005 3:41:40 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON -- The American military's continued presence in Iraq is fanning the flames of conflict, and signals the need for a new detailed timeline to bring the troops home, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Thursday. Just three days before the Iraqi people go to the polls to elect a new government, the Massachusetts Democrat said America must give Iraq back to its people rather than continue an occupation that parallels the failed politics of the Vietnam war."The U.S. military presence has become part of the problem, not part of the solution," said Kennedy in remarks prepared for delivery at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. "We need a new plan that sets fair and realistic goals for self-government in Iraq, and works with the Iraqi government on a specific timetable for the honorable homecoming of our forces."
Although Kennedy is not the first member of Congress to call for a withdrawal of the troops, he is the first senator to do so. His remarks continued what has been a long and blistering assault on the Bush administration's Iraq policies.
In an interview last year with The Associated Press, Kennedy called the war a "fraud made up in Texas," and said the administration misled the people about the threats leading up to the war.
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Laying out a detailed plan for Iraq, Kennedy said the first goal should be for the United Nations -- not the United States -- to convene an international meeting to help the new government take shape and draft a constitution.
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Message to insurgents, err... terrorists: Fight harder!!!
His Corpulence has been the problem, not the solution, for far too long.
Kennedy's message to terrorists: Just hang on a little longer and we'll leave and give you yet another country from which to operate.
The alcohol pickled his brain a long time ago.
Yep, fight harder - the same folks who helped the Communists to a political victory in Vietnam are on the side of the Baathist thugs and Islamists. Skunks don't change their stripes.
He and Ted Turner can share the same rubber room.
The Leftists win if Bush fails...Iraqi democracy must fail for the libs to be able to say "I told you so."
Sorry state to be in but this is what has become of the Democratic party...they hate Bush more than they love America.
Kennedy = manslaughtering, alcoholic, bloated, hate-America traitor.
Get a load of this...
They're just terrified that it's going to be a success.
Fat Teddy embarrasses himself and the state of MA yet again.
'Bubbles' Kennedy. Sheeeeeeeeesh........
Giving aid and comfort to the enemy again, I see. Sigh.
This coming from the guy who didn't have enough guts to face up to the music when he killed Mary Jo Kopechne. One for the ditch eh Teddy.
The shame of this Commonwealth - Kennedy, Kerry, Barney Frank, etc.
What a pathetic display the Rice hearings was...
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