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Posted on 02/07/2005 2:56:35 PM PST by XHogPilot
Ted Kennedy was so excited about the first democratic elections in Iraq in more than a half century he decided to try and undermine them by giving a highly publicized defeatist rant at Johns’ Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies on January 27. Three days later Kennedy's office put out this wildly enthusiastic one paragraph statement saying the Senator thought the Iraqi elections were "a good first step" but "not a cure" and urging President Bush to hurry up and "look beyond" the vote.
Given that we've seen two other remarkable cases of democracy blossoming around the world in the last six months, I wondered if Senator Kennedy had greeted the historic events in Afghanistan and the Ukraine with the same passion and enthusiasm with which he handled Iraq. The answer, not surprisingly, is "yes."
On October 8 of last year, one day before Afghans went to the polls, Kennedy delivered this statement on the floor of the United States Senate:
Afghanistan still faces fundamental threats to the casting of ballots on Saturday, let alone its long-term stability and prosperity. Elections are vitally important to the process of rebuilding a free country, but they are not a panacea for the myriad problems that face the people in Afghanistan.
Sounds pretty familiar. This time, however, it looks as if Senator Kennedy didn't bother with congratulating the people of Afghanistan on their historic achievement. Kennedy's web site shows that he did find time to issue three statements that weekend (October 9-10), but praising democracy in Afghanistan wasn't among them. Nor does a Lexis-Nexis search for the month of October turn up any trace of Senator Kennedy saying a single thing (either positive or negative) about the Afghan elections. It's as if they never happened.
But surely the good Senator had something positive to say about Ukraine, right? After all, the Orange Revolution was untainted by Bush's hated militarism/imperialism/unilateralism and came off without a shot being fired. Liberals (and conservatives) everywhere praised the peaceful manner in which democracy triumphed in Ukraine.
Not Kennedy. Starting with the time of the initial, fraudulent vote in Ukraine (November 21) through the revote (December 26) through the day Yuschenko was sworn in (January 23) I can't find a single word uttered by Senator Kennedy on the matter. Nothing on Google, nothing in Lexis-Nexis. Nothing on his web site and nothing in the Congressional Record. If Kennedy has said something - anything - about the historic events in Ukraine I can't find it.
Kennedy's indifference to the spread of freedom and his belief that elections are quaint but not really important events are two more reasons the Democrats are in real and mortal danger by letting this man continue to be the face and voice of their party.
As I have been saying ever since Ted gave that speech, Ted Kennedy is head of the Baathist wing of the Democrat party.
Can they play in Peoria?
Ted Kennedy-Swim Coach ??
ok, that explains his latest outbursts..he' s been separated from his buddy,Ethel..I understand that he has lost 40 lbs. also..but don't look for Teddy to be apologizing to anyone for his behavior..and I am expecting him to fall off the wagon as he can't live with the truth..
teddy coudln't fight his way out of a paper bag!!!!!!!
Only if they're underground. If they work in a grocery store its OK.
What many Republicans are overlooking is that the group that now has the most seats in the Iraqi government wants to set up a Theocracy and to make the extreme interpretation of Muslim teaching the national law of Iraq. We can't trust them to protect the Kurds nor the Jews and Christians living in Iraq. As for the Sunni's that were persecuting them, they'll be slaughtered if we let these people get control of the government.
It is a first step, but it may prove to have been very dangerous first step.
And is great fun at parties.........
It IS a first step and maybe things will go well. I am believing they will and will be praying too.
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Ted fights (against) freedom wherever he can.
I'm not too optimistic myself. But then Greeks have been a lot closer to the Moslem conflict with the civilized world than most nations have.
Never trust a Moslem. It is their intent to become a majority in Europe and the United States and then to compel everyone to be Moslem like they do in every country they have ever taken over.
The religion's primary method of conversion has always been the sword of injustice.
Ah, Senator Kennedy, although you are in many eyes lower than genital warts, to be fair I must thank you for my tagline.
Wrong! Teddy knows JACK (Daniels)
"...letting this man continue to be the face and the voice of their party."
He is also the a$$.
Let's hope and pray.
there may have been a private apology years ago. The Kopechne family moved into a $300,000 luxury home in the Poconos shortly after Mary Jo's death (and that is 1970's dollars). Not bad for a coal miner with black lung.
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