Posted on 01/28/2005 9:28:00 AM PST by demlosers
TANYA NOLAN: As President Bush calls for resolve in the face of attempts by insurgents to undermine the elections, a US Senator is calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Iraq. The liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy says the US military is now part of the problem.
But, as Washington correspondent John Shovelan reports, even members of Senator Kennedy's own party don't agree.
JOHN SHOVELAN: Ted Kennedy calls the war in Iraq President Bush's Vietnam.
TED KENNEDY: This is Vietnam again.
JOHN SHOVELAN: And just a few days before the Iraqi elections, Senator Kennedy urged the administration for a specific commitment to withdraw all US troops over the next year, beginning with an immediate withdrawal of 12,000 and completing it by early 2006.
Senator Kennedy says the war in Iraq has become a war against the US.
TED KENNEDY: We must learn from our mistakes. We must recognise what a large and growing number of Iraqis now believe – the war in Iraq has become a war against the American occupation.
JOHN SHOVELAN: Some polls suggest 92 per cent of Iraqis see the US as an occupation force.
Senator Kennedy has previously described the war as a fraud made up in Texas, and said the administration misled the people about the threats leading up to it.
Now he says the US forces and the insurgents are battling for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, and the US is losing.
TED KENNEDY: We have reached the point that a prolonged American military presence in Iraq is no longer productive for either Iraq or the United States. The US military presence has become part of the problem, not part of the solution.
We need a serious course correction. And we need it now. We must make it for the American soldiers who are paying with their lives.
JOHN SHOVELAN: Democrats this week launched a blistering attack on the administration's Iraq policy, and forced a nine-hour debate on the nomination of the President's Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, while the White House has begun implementing an aggressive plan which paints the Iraq election and the US commitment there as vital to its interests.
But it's a communication strategy which is struggling. A Wall Street Journal poll has found 52 per cent of people don't believe the war in Iraq was worth it.
Despite this public slump in support, the Democrat warhorse, Senator Kennedy's view wasn't supported by fellow Democrat Senator Bill Nelson.
BILL NELSON: If we turn tail and pull out, the place would erupt into civil war, there would be all kind of chaos. Terrorism loves a vacuum, the terrorists would fill it.
JOHN SHOVELAN: The White House has refused to discuss a time line for troop withdrawal, saying the goal first is to ensure Iraqis are capable of maintaining their own security.
John Shovelan, Washington.
Terrorists around the World can sleep a little better knowing that if they are ever captured by our brave soldiers, the Rat Party will be looking out for their welfare. They can rest assured that they will never have to worry about drinking warm Lemonade since Crazy Ted and Box-a-Rocks will make sure that they have the required 4 cubes of ice for their parched throats. If they drink it too fast and get an ice cream headache, there will be court martials.While President Bush is fighting for the protection of the American People, the Dumocrats are fighting for the protection of the Terrorists.
Senator Dayton from MN on the Senate Floor has claimed that President Bush knowingly lied to the American People and Congress. With no proof whatsoever the Senator is making reckless accusations that the President lied to go to War in Iraq. If Senators are making such very serious charges than they better have proof beyond a doubt that the President knowingly made up the story of the WMD. Senator Dayton, Crazy Kennedy and Box-a-Rocks better have proof that GW knew there was no WMD in Iraq. Of course there is only proof of the opposite.
Today’s Rat Party is devoid of new ideas, direction or values so they have only resort to the Politics of Personal Destruction. The Moore-on wing-nuts running the Party are trying to make a case for the President’s dishonesty when they have no evidence to back that up. When I called their offici to ask what exactly the President lied about, neither Dayton or Box-a-Rocks gave any answer. The accusation is all that matters and proof is not necessary in a DNCBS world. There is not even the slightest hint that the President or anyone else knew there was no WMD!
After Saddamn kicked Clinton out of Iraq, we had no inspectors for 5 years. We knew that he had WMD when he gave us the boot and did not agree to inspectors until we have him 100,000 reasons on the border. Even then he defied Hans Klink and his UN Cops while playing the shell game with him. If you are 90% sure he has them and would have them used on America while not cooperating, a President would be a fool to trust that madman. That is what the Ratpea Brain Trust would have preferred.
There is not absolute proof that the WMD did not exist in Iraq during the 18 months we sweated on the border with our 82nd Airborne Inspectors playing solitaire while rushing to War. The only thing we can be assured of now is that there are no WMD in Iraq, which is nice.
Do we say that the exit pollsters were lying when they polled Kerry winning the election only to find that their samples were wrong? Do we say the networks were lying when they were predicting a big win for Kerry? Bad example. Being wrong or deceived when you believe it to be true is not lying. You have to change the definition of lie to fit this argument, which is what the CommiKKKrats are doing. Taking their cues from Fraudulant 911, every whackjob conspiracy is to be believed and if you lie about someone being a liar, it must be true. Midget-Boxer floated this theory on the Senate floor and when not confronted decided to continue her accusations which were followed by Drunk Uncle Ted and Dayton.
Now the Republicans have to address the accusations to show the depths they have sunken. What specifically is the lie or are the lies?? What exactly did Secretary of State Rice or President Bush lie about??? What lies were told leading up to the War??? We will wait. I called Box-a-Rocks and Dayton and got no answer to these question. Only a they will call you back...Right!
Rather than celebrate the Iraq Election and Freedom of 25 million more enslaved people, the Rats want to declare the war illegal. Rather than give our Soldiers and Military the credit and Honor they deserve, the “Peace” at any Price Party wants to denigrate them. They would rather the Rape Rooms and Mass Murder to continue until the 55th UN agreement is considered and Saddamn decided to step down or was somehow voted out. What was the voter turnout for their hero Saddamn?? We could count on Koffee re-checking his Swiss bank accounts to keep the pressure on. We could count on the CommiKrauts to do the bang-up job they did to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Mogadishu, Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti. They at least keep full employment for the Grave Diggers. But the Slaves all had Healthcare right up til they were shot!
What Box-a-Rocks and Crazy Uncle Ted have proved is that they have no business anywhere near the Military or Security of this Country. Their hatred and outrage at the success that Bush has had and the lack of seating on the Trash Heap of Histoir has sent them into a deep dank dimensia never before seen in the Dims. Even though they were KO’d in the Election, Boxer wants to continue a couple more rounds with Condi.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The author is most definately "shovelan" something, and it doesn't smell too good.
Some polls 'suggest'?
What kind of info is that?
this is Vietnam again???????........you mean the same Vietnam his brother escalated into a war......your brother was the initial impetus for over 50,000 deaths. We have a long ways to go to catch up with him......go back to your swimming or floating lessons you fat ba**ard
Actually, it's an improvement over the usual.
They used the word "some"!
Dan
Senator, are you expressing admiration for President Bush following in your brother's footsteps, by fighting for freedom in Iraq like Jack did in Vietnam?
Kennedy is mentally-ill; no other way to describe his treasonous behavior.
Seriously.
What do you expect, Kennedy's father had to leave London England after supporting Hitler.
Likewise, some editor should have approached young Shovelan and said, "I will only consider hiring you if you change your name."
Kennedy memo to terrorists: Just hang on a little longer and we'll leave and you can take over yet another country.
He is the Neville Chamberlain of the Senate.
Kennedy's a drunken, murdering loudmouth lardass!!!!!
just my two cents and a little venting
Teddy, when you finally pass on, I will make it a point to piss on your grave.
Seriously.
There's gonna be a Very LOOOOOOONG Line
Charles Krauthammer said it best on Fox News last nite, This was a speech delivered by a has been who cant give "the big speech anymore"
The only thing that will help is a giant tube of Preparation H, to match the giant *ss***es! Maybe if you use enough, they'll shrink up and go away.
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