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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: Red Badger
He's right. They should be labeled "TRAITORS"................

Gee. I was gonna say that.

81 posted on 12/19/2005 8:09:22 AM PST by Maceman (Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
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To: Hadean

The Senator from Chappaquiddick is squealing like a stuck pig. Remember what The Swimmer said about the Iraq war being cooked up ahead of time?


82 posted on 12/19/2005 8:10:54 AM PST by sauropod ("The love that dare not speak its' name has now become the love that won't shut the hell up.")
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To: Hadean

I dunno. It seems the terrorists were pretty emboldened on 9-11, and we weren't even IN Iraq.

Kennedy needs to be reminded that bin Laden specifically said that it was Clinton's cowardly retreat in Mogadishu that embolded al Qaeda and convinced them that they could defeat the US.


83 posted on 12/19/2005 8:12:08 AM PST by Maceman (Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
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To: Hadean

Teddy Kennedy - the terrorists representative in Washington.


84 posted on 12/19/2005 8:12:15 AM PST by An Old Marine (Freedom isn't Free)
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To: Hadean

Look at the bright side Ted: He didn't call you a worthless, obese, drunken, philandering murderer.

 

 

85 posted on 12/19/2005 8:15:40 AM PST by Fintan (See??? Sometimes I do read the articles.)
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To: Pookyhead

Disclaimer: This photo is FAKE but ACCURATE.

86 posted on 12/19/2005 8:16:09 AM PST by Maceman (Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
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To: Pookyhead

I seem to recall that the police had already ran the plates and traced the car to Kennedy and were looking for him. Apparently, he had already met with several advisors and discussed the best possible way to handle himself before he appeared several hours(10-12?) later
to give a statement.


87 posted on 12/19/2005 8:20:34 AM PST by OrangeBlossomSpecial (DEAN, KERRY & HERPES : The gifts that keep on giving & giving & giving)
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To: Hadean

Hey Swimmer, you and your fellow Dems are craven, self-seeking, traitorous, Chamberlainesque fools.

Is that better?


88 posted on 12/19/2005 8:25:02 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Promises to keep...)
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To: Hadean

I vote for calling them "Traitors" versus "Defeatists." Ask anyone with an agenda; words matter. ;)


89 posted on 12/19/2005 8:26:09 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Maceman

"Why of coarse I have a penis,I'll take my hands of the wheel and lift my belly up, and you can see for yourself..."


90 posted on 12/19/2005 8:26:45 AM PST by SteveSpeaking
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To: Hadean

Who cares what Kennedy says? This windbag is only in the Senate because his name is Kennedy.


91 posted on 12/19/2005 8:30:50 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Candor7

LOL!!


92 posted on 12/19/2005 8:35:27 AM PST by penelopesire
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To: Red Badger

"Once a snake, always a snake........."

Shame we cannot treat him, Reid and Pelosi the way that they treated Clement L. Valladigham back in the Civil War.


93 posted on 12/19/2005 8:43:15 AM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: Hadean

Tiddy Kowardly has to go back into hiding
now...Ahab has allready set course for the
Massachusettes coastline.


94 posted on 12/19/2005 8:49:34 AM PST by Baby Driver
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To: No Truce With Kings
From Bartleby.com

On May 1, 1863, in a political speech at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, he declared, among other things, that the Civil War was being fought not to save the Union but to free the blacks and enslave the whites. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, then commanding the Dept. of the Ohio, accused him of violating “General Order No. 38,” which threatened punishment for those declaring sympathy for the enemy, and Vallandigham was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to imprisonment for the rest of the war. President Lincoln commuted the sentence to banishment behind Confederate lines.

BWAHA-HA-HA-HA! For today's Copperheads, that would mean drop them into the mountains of AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN border!.............

95 posted on 12/19/2005 9:02:52 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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To: Hadean

Defeatist is about the mildest term that Bush could employ to describe these traitors. If it were me making that speech, it may have had to have been on 10-second delay so that they could bleep out the expletives I would likely use to describe those in and the actions of the sedition party.


96 posted on 12/19/2005 9:05:06 AM PST by Spiff ("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
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To: Baby Driver

Mr Kennedy...*exactly* where..*were* each of
your hands right before the car swerved
and crashed over the side of the bridge?...."

"..Any chance you were trying to force one of
them in between Miss Kopeckne's legs?..."


97 posted on 12/19/2005 9:06:27 AM PST by Baby Driver
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To: trebb

Actually if Kennedy lays down on the ground, he is still the same height.


98 posted on 12/19/2005 10:47:38 AM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: Hadean
Enemy combatants sounds good to me or maybe "The Swimmer" should ask Al Qaeda who they prefer to prevail in American Politics and why.
99 posted on 12/19/2005 10:50:25 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: Hadean
I actually read the Bush quote. He distinguished those with legitimate criticisms from the defeatists for whom we could do nothing right. If the Swimmer wants to put himself in category #2 rather than category #1, how is this Bush's fault?
100 posted on 12/19/2005 10:52:25 AM PST by kevkrom ("Zero-sum games are transactions mostly initiated by thieves and governments." - Walter Williams)
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