Father:Nazi sympathizer
Terrorist sympathizer....
Like father, like son...
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in the face of attempts by insurgents to undermine the elections, a US Senator is calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.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.
On the heals of the death of 31 Marines, disgusting.
Rush is railing against Kennedy and his remarks right now.
That's why I posted, I wouldn't miss Rush for anything.
If he can explain why Mary Jo was not withdrawn from the water then he can get an answer to his question.
You will be standing in a long line. I will be there too. LOL
Think of the Hindenberg burning and crashing in the well of the US Senate. "Oh, the humanity!" Or think of Marlon Brando as the human zipcode, dressed in slimming black, rubbing his bald head, "The horror, the horror!"
Congressman Billybob
The longer the wait the fuller the bladder.
...and I'll be right behind you in that line. Seriously.
His grave isn't worthy of my dog crapping on it...
Kennedy is a traitor, and should be treated as such.
Too bad this *ASTARD usually gets away with it! No one to hold his feet to the fire! sighhhhhhhh...:(
Years of alcohol have finally taken over Ted's brain.....
His grave isn't worthy of my dog crapping on it...
Well, we can do it ourselves or walk behind Hillary with a pooper scooper...
Why does he have to be mentally ill to be a traitor?
I honestly think they keep ol Teddy boy around for comic relief....
you know the best way to get to a Liberal is just to laugh at him. they want debates because they think they can yell louder and to them, yelling louder = winning the argument.
I just laugh. Laughing wins all arguments with liberals because it drives them crazy....
"Like father, like son..."
Oh, you are so right!
Joe K made a $$Billion by manipulating and then breaking the Stock Market that caused the Great Depression. He and a small group forced the closing of Banks when their stocks were forced down and set off the chain reaction. Joe K caused the Great Depression and TK & Clan live off that disaster.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The jerks keep referring to Iraq = Viet Nam. Ummm, have they ever decided to remember who was President when American troops were first sent to Viet Nam? JFK was Prez in 1960. When LBJ took over, there were 15,000 Americans in SE Asia. LBJ escalated to over 500,000. Nixon got us out.
A long line indeed. I just purchased the "spitting" concesion. SF
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