Posted on 11/09/2006 9:55:01 AM PST by 300magnum
ROME (Reuters) - Europe will be kept more in the loop about U.S. foreign policy after mid-term elections which swept away Republican control of Congress, senior Democratic party member Senator Edward Kennedy said on Thursday.
Kennedy, the Democratic senator for Massachusetts and the younger brother of former President John F. Kennedy, said his party's newly won control of the U.S. House of Representatives would bring a desire for greater involvement.
"There is a new game in the United States now," he told reporters after meeting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
"There is a new desire to have more involvement, where the Democrats will be participating in foreign policy...to a much greater extent. I think we have ideas that are constructive and positive," he said in Rome.
Kennedy was asked if the Democrats' mid-term election victory would lead to better dialogue between the United States and European countries, some of whom felt excluded from decisions regarding the war in Iraq.
"I think we are dealing with the situation. I was personally opposed to the war but that was yesterday," he said. "I think that what we are trying to do now is (decide) how we proceed now. That's really the challenge."
Asked if Europe would be kept more in the foreign policy loop than in the past, he said: "Absolutely."
Kennedy is in Italy to attend 40th anniversary commemorations of the 1966 floods that devastated parts of the city of Florence and led to an international effort to save precious works of art and manuscripts.
this means the oil for food stuff will be buried now as well. Remember Kofi defied rules and never showed his income,wealth and holdings
Oh goody! We've joined the EU...when do we start minting the money??
gee I didnt know we had completely fired Mr. Bush and hired Fat Ted in his place. Kennedy is making foreign policy now?
Funny - I thought Fat Ted would drag in the Russians first. After all, he tried back in the 80's.
Puke!
Um, Senator, foreign policy is the job of the State Department, which if I recall, is part of Bush's administration? Sigh...
****"I think we are dealing with the situation. I was personally opposed to the war but that was yesterday," he said. "I think that what we are trying to do now is (decide) how we proceed now. That's really the challenge."**
I read that sentence to mean he was against the war when it worked against george Bush, but now that the democrats have taken the Hill he may be for it. It sure sounds to me like an admission that they used the war for their political purposes.
To the Republicans who stayed home on Tuesday I say "Damn you! Damn you to hell. You've killed us all."
Yes, the party that brought us Vietnam and Korea but didn't want to run them as real wars, the party that gave missle guidance technology to the PRC, the party that ran the FBI out of Yemen on the USS Cole investigation, . . . - would we be talking about that Democratic party?
By the way - did everyone notice that the Iraq War is the The Iraq SITUATION? Pelosi and Kennedy both using that term.
Yeah, but the State Dept. bureaucracy are all Dems. [and leakers] anyway.
So now we will follow europes lead as a lackey instead of leading?
Just freaking great.
****"I think we are dealing with the situation. I was personally opposed to the war but that was yesterday," he said. "I think that what we are trying to do now is (decide) how we proceed now. That's really the challenge."**
I read that sentence to mean he was against the war when it worked against george Bush, but now that the democrats have taken the Hill he may be for it. It sure sounds to me like an admission that they used the war for their political purposes.
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Exactly.
How sickening this is going to be. And it's only Day Two?!
To Europe:
Good News! The Democrats are building a bridge towards unprecedented cooperation with European interests.
The bad news is that Ted Kennedy is the one who's gonna be driving you over it.
I agree when is old Europe going to start sending troops to Iraq? They're all talk as usual and the Dims want to listen and do what they say.
What, letting the Soviets in on our plans wasn't sufficient?
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