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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...in 12 months they'll be claiming "Soviet Union Wahhabi Islam fell from within. Reagan Bush had nothing to do with it".
Note to Muslims: Ted Kennedy doesn't speak for America. Don't accept any rides home from him. He's still a drunk.
Ted can't drink scotch and cogitate at the same time, so who is coming up with this stuff ("detailed plans")? I begin to suspect that TedKennedyCo is little more than a staff of terminally angry paleo-progs churning out Hate-America-First boilerplate which is then fed to the MSM via the corpulent corporate mascot.
Kennedy is fueling Global Warming every time he opens his mouth.
Oldsmoboarder Teddy and John Kerry and the Dem minority are whats fueling the terrorists, every time they open their stupid mouths. Osama is getting old I think its time Ted dropped the charade and ran for the Leadership of Al Quaeda after all Ted has experience with terror groups he has helped the IRA enough.
Kennedy has always been a traitor. It is only his support for Kerry's testimony of lies to the Senate that enabled Kerry to run for President, DESPITE THE FACT IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR HIM TO DO SO UNDER ARTICLE III SECTION 3 OF THE CONSTITUTION.
The Condi Rice opposition was to give Hillary a base to criticize her if they run against each other for the Presidency in 2008.
Reminds me of the DU thread somebody posted here.
"Who should we want to win... the insurgents or the US military?"
Just imagine how it is to live in the Socialist Republic of Taxachusetts. What is wrong with those people?
Oh, heck yeah...they defend the terrorists and want them to win in Iraq.
It's pathetic.
I think his liver rejected him.
WASHINGTON -- The American military's continued presence in Germany is fanning the flames of conflict, and signals the need for a new detailed timeline to bring the troops home, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. said Thursday.
I knew two 'good men' who drank a lot less than this a-hole, yet in the end, the booze killed them. It just isn't fair.......
News Flash!...Kennedy calls for investigation into how young girl drowned in car....(sarcasm extreme)
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