Posted on 01/30/2005 5:50:34 AM PST by billorites
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| US Senator Edward Kennedy says invading Iraq was a mistake |
Iraq has become US President George Bush's Vietnam, filled with mistakes and blunders, without a long-term plan, a prominent US senator said.
America's military entanglement in Iraq "clearly is George Bush's Vietnam", Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading member of the Democratic Party, said on CBS's Face The Nation programme on Sunday.
The harsh words refer to the US role and ultimate defeat in the 1964-1975 Vietnam war.
The Abu Ghraib scandal is among According to Kennedy, Iraq "is a disaster because it's a result of blunder after blunder after blunder", he said.
Kennedy blasted Bush's claim in an interview in Sunday's Washington Post that his Iraq policy was endorsed by the US public because of his November 2004 re-election victory.
"I think that's ridiculous," said Kennedy. He referred to the 1964 elections, when Democrat Lyndon Johnson, who had increased US military involvement in Vietnam, defeated Republican Barry Goldwater by an overwhelming majority.
Johnson then had to "basically abdicate the presidency" when he announced in March 1968 that he would not seek re-election, largely due to the drain on time, resources and his popularity resulting from failures in Vietnam.
Blunder after blunder
the US blunders, Kennedy said
Further mistakes included not having enough troops for post-war operations, disbanding the Iraqi army, having single-source contracts to groups such as the politically connected Halliburton, the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib and the US refusal to accept offers by other countries such as Egypt to assist in training Iraqi forces, said Kennedy.
"Finally they have been unable to make up a plan - they're making it up day by day. Until Iraqis are going to fight for their own country we are going to have a very, very dangerous situation," said Kennedy.
US making the calls
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"The United States has been manipulating and making all the calls in terms of Iraq" |
As for the upcoming elections in Iraq, "We have to let the Iraqis make the judgment and the decision about the elections.
"The United States has been manipulating and making all the calls in terms of Iraq. The Iraqis have to make the judgments," he said.
"Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves this very basic question. And that is, 'Is the face of the United States part of the liberation and security and the stability in that country, or are we a force that is perceived to be expanding the kind of uncertainty and savagery and revolution that's taking place there?'" he asked.
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You can find this article at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80CC0A22-B084-4B05-A34F-1628DC9ACE72.htm
@#$%&!$#!
Kennedy needs to be tried for TREASON!
Not surprisingly, it's the AFP version.
Let freedom reign!
If Vietnam had been John Kennedy's Iraq Ted Kennedy might have been President. What a Maroon.
thanks for the enhancement - this the third time I have cpied that pic, it gets better and better...
Ted needs a good cup of "STFU" coffee to sober up...
The people have won.
[snip]
I walked forward to my station, cast my vote and then headed to the box, where I wanted to stand as long as I could, then I moved to mark my finger with ink, I dipped it deep as if I was poking the eyes of all the world's tyrants. I put the paper in the box and with it, there were tears that I couldn't hold; I was trembling with joy and I felt like I wanted to hug the box but the supervisor smiled at me and said "brother, would you please move ahead, the people are waiting for their turn".
Yes brothers, proceed and fill the box!
These are stories that will be written on the brightest pages of history.
The dems must have slapped duct tape on Teddy this morning. No sign of him on the Sunday talk show scene.
"thanks for the enhancement - this the third time I have cpied that pic, it gets better and better"
I'm hosting it - all FReepers are welcome to use it.
Yeah. This looks just like Vietnam to me....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331796/posts
Sorry, Ted and AlJazeera
Kennedy keeps repeating this ad nauseum. He never makes it clear what he means by "following Osama". I assume Kennedy thinks we should have invaded Pakistan instead of Iraq.
Don't you just love that this LOSER still
has No clue how irrelevant he is!
Liberalism is a mental disorder, and the bloated, fat drunk, Ted Kennedy, is mentally-ill.
James Taranto (Best of the Web/Wall Street Journal Opinion page said it best this week:
"If he [Kennedy]has his way, democracy in Iraq will suffer the same fate as Mary Jo Kopechne."
From the Wall Street Jounral, THAT is a major slam-dunk on the drunken sot calling himself 'Edward Moore(ON) Kennedy'.
Fat, bloated, alcoholic, washed-up, Has-been Bttt.
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