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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Before Prohibition ever came about, Old Joe made tons of money on Wall Street using extremely crooked tactics including insider trading with information gathered while being a state bank examiner. How the Kennedy Empire was Built ...and Other Scandals
By the time he used his money to get into Hollywood, Old Joe's reputation as a Wall Street Robber Baron was well established. The Robber Baron and the Film Industry
Whether he was a "Robber Baron" or not depends on how you define the term.
Can we agree to call him a "Scumbag"? :-)
What has Ted ever done that was even remotely beneficially brilliant?
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Why in the hell any person claiming to be a conservyive and who had lived throught the Kennedy period as an adult would excuse Kennedy or his administration is beyond me. The Kennedy period was the ascendency of a left wing madhouse buttered up with Ted Sorensen's speach writing. Kennedy was the first Bill Clinton. Or perhaps it should be said Clinton was the second Jack Kennedy with a little more freedom to act nuts because the social barriers to doing so have been eroded.
Come to think of it, what is it with liberals so fixated on showing pictures of people pushing wheelchairs?
Well, I guess you learn something every day. I'd never looked into it because frankly I wasn't that interested in Old Joe. It sounds like he was as big a weasel in business as he was in his marriage!
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