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Kennedy says Bush wrong to label critics "defeatists"
7 News Boston ^ | 12.19.2005

Posted on 12/19/2005 6:34:11 AM PST by Hadean

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy says President Bush is wrong to try and silence his Iraq-war critics by calling them defeatists.

Kennedy says Americans understand that for America's security, we need to win in Iraq. However the Democratic lawmaker said Bush should acknowledge that the Iraq war has emboldened the terrorists, and increased their ranks.

Bush spoke to the nation last night about the war. The president said that despite setbacks, not only can the United States win the war in Iraq -- we are winning the war.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; defeatists; gwot; iraq; kennedy; tedkennedy; terrorists; wot
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To: Hadean

He's so vain, he probably thinks the speach was about him!


21 posted on 12/19/2005 6:43:47 AM PST by OneRatToGo
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To: Hadean

Would you rather see gallows Mr. Kennedy?


22 posted on 12/19/2005 6:44:12 AM PST by roses of sharon ("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
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To: Hadean

He's right. Bush should label 'em as traitors.


23 posted on 12/19/2005 6:44:15 AM PST by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: Hadean

You are right Teddy. Should have used "quisling" instead.


24 posted on 12/19/2005 6:44:16 AM PST by pissant
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To: Red Badger

The harpoon stung just a bit, did it?.............

LOL! Must have. That mean Bush called him the D word.


26 posted on 12/19/2005 6:44:45 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (We're in this fight to win. These colors don't run. -- VP Cheney, 12/18/2005)
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To: Hadean
Teddy Kennedy whining again? What a surprise. The reason people call them defeatists is because they are. The reason people call them traitors is because they are. The idea that they are victims is absurd. Its never occured to them that people are calling them these things because that;s exactly what they are!
27 posted on 12/19/2005 6:44:48 AM PST by N. Beaujon (http://www.nbeaujon.com)
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To: Mr. Brightside

I like "Retreasonists".


28 posted on 12/19/2005 6:45:08 AM PST by Wristpin ("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
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To: Hadean

How about "Stuck on Stupid Defeatists" Swimmer?


29 posted on 12/19/2005 6:45:09 AM PST by RobFromGa (Polls are for people who can't think for themselves.)
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To: Hadean

"Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy says President Bush is wrong to try and silence his Iraq-war critics by calling them defeatists."

More pearls of wisdom from a gin-soaked brain.


30 posted on 12/19/2005 6:45:17 AM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Hadean

No you drunken sod , Your cowardly defeatist attitude is what is emboldening terorists, Geez get real. WTFU you poor dumb little rich boy.


31 posted on 12/19/2005 6:45:30 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: Hadean
Speaking of which, I haven't heard a peep from DNC chair Howard Dean lately. Has his foot in the mouth performances been gagged by the Democratic leadership in Congress?
32 posted on 12/19/2005 6:45:30 AM PST by RayChuang88
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To: Hadean

Very few if any care what Mr. Kennedy has to say about anything.
Ignore it. It'll go away.


33 posted on 12/19/2005 6:45:56 AM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: Hadean

Very few if any care what Mr. Kennedy has to say about anything.
Ignore it. It'll go away.


34 posted on 12/19/2005 6:46:22 AM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: Hadean
Kennedy says Bush wrong to label critics "defeatists"

So, Kennedy's answer is...

Kennedy says Americans understand that for America's security, we need to win in Iraq. However the Democratic lawmaker said Bush should acknowledge that the Iraq war has emboldened the terrorists, and increased their ranks.

Hey, Senator, are you quoting from John Kerry's Plan?
[I sure don't see Kennedy's comment adding anything to the discussion. Ok, we need to win. We know that, Senator. Terrorists are emboldened? Bin Laden said Clinton's Somalia/African Embassies/USCole fiascos enboldened him. We know the Clinton approach didn't work.]


35 posted on 12/19/2005 6:46:33 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: ladtx
The usual suspects, Kennedy, Senator Sorethroat, etc., dislike their new label.
36 posted on 12/19/2005 6:48:12 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Hadean
Senator Moron:

Luring the islamic terrorists from all over the word to come to Iraq to fight our military and us killing and capturing them by the thousands is not emboldening them and nor increasing their ranks. It is annihilating them, pure and simple.

37 posted on 12/19/2005 6:48:23 AM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: Hadean
A few years back,I met TeddyBoy when he was being honored at the Boston hospital at which I worked at the time.I got within a couple of feet of him,but didn't speak with him. My vantage point,plus my Irish ancestry,plainly showed that he was a very,very serious alcoholic...he had all the physical characteristics.

And as an Irishman,I've seen more that a few serious alcoholics in my day!!

38 posted on 12/19/2005 6:48:34 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: Hadean

There's a saying from where I grew up that applies to Teddy. Roughly translated it goes like this, "If you're scratching, it's 'cause it itches."

Teddy...if brains were leather, you wouldn't have enough to saddle a bug.


39 posted on 12/19/2005 6:49:45 AM PST by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: Hadean

He's right one can't be both liberal and defeatist; liberals are incapable of defeating anything (themselves included).


40 posted on 12/19/2005 6:49:58 AM PST by x5452
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