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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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To: kattracks
That analogy more aptly applies to George Bush, Sr. than to the present situation. Did the Japanese retaliate for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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posted on
10/08/2002 4:55:18 AM PDT
by
TiaS
To: kattracks
A more apt comparison would be whether, if America had knowledge of the Japanese fleet, we should have launched a preemptive strike, or per Teddy's advice, waited until the bombs were falling on Hawaii before responding.
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posted on
10/08/2002 5:00:04 AM PDT
by
SJackson
To: bybybill
To: The Great Satan
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posted on
10/08/2002 5:37:03 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: kattracks
GReat strategy, tell Saddam in advance that he won't be attacked and that we trust him fully.
To: The Great Satan
Reminds me of my favorite political bumper sticker of all time:
Kennedy in '72
A Blonde in Every Pond!
To: Petronski
I agree! It is useful to remind everyone that good Democrat Joe Kennedy was an appeaser and admirer of Hitler!
To: kattracks
If he thinks Iraq would be Pearl Harbor in reverse, he must have been royally pissed about the Bay of Pigs.
To: kattracks
Perhaps Ted should read a little history before speaking about it...
Nah, why change now...
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posted on
10/08/2002 6:39:43 AM PDT
by
DB
To: kattracks
JFK would most certainly have attacked had the missiles not been removed! That man, unlike his younger brother, did care about the security of this nation. Geeze Teddy, slander your own brother for political gain huh? What an stupid, insidious remark!
To: RLK
JFK would not, I repeat not, recognize the party he was the leader of. All Presidents have speech writers, all of them. He was an entirely different breed of Democrat and to compare his policies and beliefs to his brother, or to the party leaders now is just plain wrong. I don't like RATS either, but they were not all like they are now.
To: Timesink
" He still looks better than Hillary. "
You mean TWO Hillarys ???
54
posted on
10/08/2002 7:01:46 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: kattracks
Always good to know just where booze-addled, overweight killers stand on an issue. Thanks, Teddy.
To: kattracks
how drunk was he?
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posted on
10/08/2002 7:06:12 AM PDT
by
angcat
To: kattracks
This may be significant.Because some are saying Bush wants to be emperor.And since the Japanese attacked to widen the Japanese empire.Teddy is bascially saying that by attacking Iraq we are going to go out an take over other areas for oil or whatever to increase our empire.This is sure tin foil hat stuff on his part.I would assume that it would be ok of the Iraq regieme set of some sort of chemical or biological attack on Boston.Then we would have grounds for the war?How does this mans mind operate?
To: kattracks
The question is who writes Kennedys speeches? He is obviously reading them for the first time when he talks on the Senate floor, and is at a loss as to what he is talking about. Who is his marionette?
To: kattracks
Ted Kennedy: Really Fat Benedict Arnold (not in reverse).
To: lexington minuteman 1775
How does this mans mind operate? Mostly in a drunken stupor.
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