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in the face of attempts by insurgents to undermine the elections, a US Senator is calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.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.
And I will sell you the beer.
His bizzare, erratic behavior points to mental illness, probably from the huge consumption of alcohol over the years.
That said, not all traitors are mentally-ill, though the irrational hatred of one's country and people in committing treason and sedition, is suspect in that all-encompassing disease description.
Probably from all the alcohol, over the years.
Heck, I'd go to that *parade*.
ping
Hey Ted,...as you are the Senator from my district: STFU
Yep, I remember that from "Ol' Smuggler Joe's" criminal history of smuggling and murder.
The wrong Kennedy got the lobotomy, Teddy not his sister!
Get to the back of the line!
The whole family and their progeny are screwed-up, bigtime. Something defective in the genes.
They are nothing more than crooks that made well after father Joe made it big by boot legging. Their family history is rank with crime, filthy morals and a paid off Catholic Church, which ought to be ashamed. Old man Joe championed the Nazis - the acorn didn't fall far from the tree with son Ted. That sick buffoon should be kicked out of the Senate for his treasonous remarks these past few days. As I said earlier, besotted Ted Kennedy is Certifiably INSANE.
The Kennedy's have the cut and run gene.
Big mouths with no backbone.
My hero
Ted Kennedy, Ted Turner, Ted Bundy, Ted Kaczynski, Ted Knight, Ted Danson...what's in a name? Obviously, a lot..."Ted"="Turd"!
I would love to see that, although it would be throwing down the gauntlet and a wrestlin royal rumble would ensue. I just someone tags out when they're facing Teddy because I would love to crack him one right on top his skull.
LOL ! I had the same thought a couple of hours ago.
Oh, and don't forget one more nutso communist - the cartoonist Ted Rall.
Well said.
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