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Kennedy: Bush Iraq Plan a 'Pearl Harbor in Reverse'
NewsMax.com ^
| 10/07/02
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 10/07/2002 10:38:22 PM PDT by kattracks
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said Monday that U.S. plans for preemptive action against Iraq reminded him of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor 61 years ago.
Debating President Bush's request for congressional authority to make war, Kennedy warned the Senate that a U.S. Iraq attack would be "a Pearl Harbor in reverse," according to the Associated Press.
He urged the Bush White House to use the same restraint President John F. Kennedy did in not attacking Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis.
Sen. Kennedy made no reference to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba a year earlier: the ill-fated CIA operation approved by his brother that prompted Fidel Castro to invite the Soviet Union to position nuclear missiles 90 miles off U.S. shores.
In urging Bush to show restraint towards Saddam Hussein, Sen. Kennedy seemed to be following in the footsteps of his late father, Joseph P. Kennedy, who, as Ambassador to the Court of St. James in 1939, argued that the U.S. should make a separate peace with Adolf Hitler.
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posted on
10/07/2002 10:38:22 PM PDT
by
kattracks
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
How in the hell could Teddy and JFK be brothers? One of them got switched at birth
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posted on
10/07/2002 10:42:00 PM PDT
by
bybybill
To: Texas_Jarhead
Really. How much longer is that pickled liver of Ted going to keep functioning.
To: kattracks
It would be Pearl Harbor in reverse, because we have publically disclosed what we intend to do, which the Japanese didn't do.
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posted on
10/07/2002 10:42:26 PM PDT
by
coloradan
To: coloradan
Kennedy is a loser. Put a sock in it Ted!
6
posted on
10/07/2002 10:46:39 PM PDT
by
Wphile
To: Texas_Jarhead
where's that serial sniper when you need him... seems to me that worrying about sodamn-insane should be secondary til we clean out the house and senate of America's home grown enemies,,,
vsm
To: kattracks
What did you guys expect? Teddy sat at pappy Old Joe's feet when he was licking Hitler's boots.
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posted on
10/07/2002 10:48:47 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: kattracks
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said Monday that U.S. plans for preemptive action against Iraq reminded him of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor 61 years ago. There won't be anything sneak about THIS attack. It'll be "I'm comin' after you Saddam" and the bombs will rain forthwith.
To: kattracks
Be nice to Teddy.
It's just the syphilis talking.
10
posted on
10/07/2002 10:51:40 PM PDT
by
RodgerD
To: RodgerD
I thought it was the high test ethyl alcohol.
To: bybybill
How in the hell could Teddy and JFK be brothers? One of them got switched at birth...
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They were two peas in a pod. Neither of the were/are too bright. Both were/are psychopaths. Jack was better looking and had a bit of Irish wit. He also had Ted Sorenson writing books and speeches for him.
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posted on
10/07/2002 11:02:54 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: kattracks
What needs to be done is to declare Massachusetts a no-man's land unprotected by the United States and subject to attack by any terrorist group. If they get nuked up there it result in an improvement in the United States and the trash they send to national office will no longer be a problem.
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posted on
10/07/2002 11:08:10 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: kattracks
"He urged the Bush White House to use the same restraint President John F. Kennedy did ... Sen. Kennedy made no reference to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba..."
LMAO
To: kattracks
Sneak attack when all you see on TV and in the papers are American warplans?
Kennedy does not want to go to war why? Too much money spent on military and defense instead of his "programs" and pork?
He is the perfect example of why we need term limits - to prevent a Ted Kennedy - fat cat politician.
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posted on
10/07/2002 11:11:51 PM PDT
by
ClancyJ
To: ClancyJ
Kennedy does not want to go to war why?
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He thinks he's in the forefront of appealing to the hippie intellectual left. Unfortunately Massachusetts is filled with glorified hippies and it gets him reelected.
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posted on
10/07/2002 11:23:47 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: kattracks
So says the swimmer and murderer.
To: RLK
I keep forgetting that some of those senators DO have hippies and socialists for constituents. Yes - the left rules there.
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posted on
10/07/2002 11:32:25 PM PDT
by
ClancyJ
To: coloradan
It would be Pearl Harbor in reverse, because we have publically disclosed what we intend to do, which the Japanese didn't do.Not to mention the fact that there is no moral relationship between what Japan did to us and what we are about to do to Iraq.
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