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| 2004-01-18 | |
| A Dishonest War By Edward M. Kennedy Of the many issues competing for attention in this new and defining year, one is of a unique order of magnitude: President Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq. Agreed. The facts demonstrate how dishonest that decision was. As former Treasury It actually began before Bush’s father left office, but, please, continue, Ted: Some felt Saddam Hussein could be contained He was actually best contained in that spider hole, but I digress. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, gave advocates of war the opening they needed. One of Dubya’s finer moments..... Three days later, Cheney publicly began to send signals about attacking Iraq. On Nov. 29 he said: "I don’t think it takes a genius to figure out that this guy [Hussein] is clearly
I thought Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terrorism, Ted... Ten days later, in his State of the Union address, President Bush and we all know the US can’t walk and chew gum at the same time the drumbeat on Iraq gradually drowned out those who felt Hussein was no imminent threat ."We can’t wait until the threat becomes imminent" GWB On Sept. 12 the president told the United Nations: "Iraq likely maintains stockpiles of VX, mustard and other chemical agents and has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon." He said Iraq could build a nuclear weapon "within a year" if Hussein obtained such material. War on Iraq was clearly coming, but why make this statement in September? As White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said, "From a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August." Deliberate misstatement Republicans voted almost unanimously for war and kept control of the House in the elections. Democrats were deeply "Control" of Congress?? Oh, I forgot, Bush is a Nazi. Do go on, Ted.. The final step in the march to war was a feint to the United Nations. But evil neocons Cheney, Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz had convinced the president that war would be a cakewalk, with or without the United Slobo’s was! and the administration did not seriously try to make it one until long after the war began and all the false justifications began to fall apart. There was no imminent threat. And no one ever said it was, Ted. Read the speeches. Or have someone read them to you. Have another cocktail while you’re at it.. Hussein had no nuclear weapons, no arsenals of chemical or biological weapons, no connection to Sept. 11 and no plausible link to al Qaeda. Is Dan Darling reading this? We never should have gone to war for ideological reasons driven by We should have just talked real mean & kept on banging our interns.. Vast resources have been spent on the war that should have been spent on priorities at Because of the Dems.. Precious lives have been lost. God bless each one of them and their families. The war has made America more Yes because kicking their ass really pisses them off. But we’re not done yet, Ted... The most fundamental decision a president ever makes is the decision to go to war. President Bush violated the trust that must exist between Exactly what is the truth, Ted? America would never have gone to war in Iraq. No president who does that to our country deserves to be reelected. Whatever you say, Ted. You don’t deserve to be reelected, either, but somehow it just keeps happening... The writer is a I hope I didn’t f**k this up, it’s my first time. It really IS fun! | |
| Posted by:Chris McGrath |
| #13 The Right side of the political world could do better than speculate on what disease Ted Kennedy will die of in old age. We need to coalesce as a political force with the objective of seeing him RESIGN from the Senate, or at least be defeated by finally waking up the voters of MA. Kennedy has one huge chink in his political armor: the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, and the fact that a secret inquest was held and the results are sealed to this day. I was stationed with the USAF in MA when this homicide happened, and the speculation of the time centered around whether Mary Jo was pregnant with Kennedy's child. Most townspeople of my town, the heavily-Catholic Chicopee Falls, believed that the autopsy of Mary Jo would have showed this fact, had it been released. At the time, over 85% of MA voters were Catholic, and the Catholic church of the time was considerably less tolerant of fornication and resulting pregnancies than it is now. The likely result of that revelation then would have been Kennedy's defeat at the next election. The other question of course would have been toward Kennedy's intent at the time of the "accident". Post-mortem evidence of hanky-panky would have added motive to the means and opportunity of any criminal death investigation, completing the three sides of the homicide investigative triangle. Since that time, I have completed 30 years of police work, and I firmly believe that Ted Kennedy should have, and still could be investigated for Kopechne's homicide. Murder has no statute of limitations. Kennedy has had 35 years to perfect his denial strategy, but that strategy would be no match for a loud and widespread demand for investigation and subsequent criminal redress of this crime. The Right will never know how strong they are if they don't take on a singular project and see it through to completion. The Kennedy project would be the ideal test of political resolve, because when Kennedy goes down, all the other weasely immoral lefties would go with him. |
| Posted by: Rivrdog 2004-1-18 7:26:50 PM |
| #12 ruprecht, I hope you dont expect anything like honor from the Democrats. Their so-called 'honor' (or lack of) is one of the main reasons I left the Democratic Fold. (One of the other reasons was having my eyes 'opened' by what I found on the net.) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-18 6:50:17 PM |
| #11 Bush worked closely with Ted to get the Education bill passed. A bill that had everything in it Ted wanted and didn't have the one thing Bush wanted (vouchers). So much for any kind of loyalty for working together. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-1-18 6:04:23 PM |
| #10 4thInfVet - actually, he's been (pretty) sober since his marriage to Victoria Reggie, I think back in 1996. But the damage was already done... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-1-18 4:16:25 PM |
| #9 Up until last year, I was a Democrat. I had been a Democrat for 31 years, all of my adult voting life. But over the years my Party changed. One of the changes that took place was that the Democrats no longer thought of Republicans as "the opposition"; Republicans became "the enemy". There's a big difference. The other change was their complete abandonment of any respect for the truth. I blame this in part on Bill Clinton's wholesale substitution of what I call "lawyer truth" (i.e., any lie will do, just so long as people will swallow it) for the ordinary "people truth" that we all recognize. But even more than Clinton, I blame Ted Kennedy. The man has absolutely no honor, a complete scumbag. I will never again vote for any Democrat, for any public office, ever. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-1-18 3:33:04 PM |
| #8 Liver failure. The only accomplice will be single malt scotch whiskey. OH, that's right, he's on the wagon, clean and sober. Right. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-18 3:21:55 PM |
| #7 Like the old WB cartoon, Sir Osis of the Liver... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-1-18 3:09:40 PM |
| #6 Woah, Charles! Don't give anybody ideas - it might cause YOU problems. Let the rabid anti-Kennedys in the world do it their way. I'd hate for someone to come in, place a bet, then do Kennedy in the way they'd bet. That would tenatively make Rantburg an "accessory before the fact", and might even get Fred in hot water. Let's just continue to make fun of the fat bas$$$$, and pray the plaque in his bloodstream all breaks loose at once. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-18 3:03:27 PM |
| #5 We should start a betting pool on what Ted will die from. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-1-18 2:52:12 PM |
| #4 Ted Kennedy has so few brain cells left that I never take anything he says as being even remotely plausible, much less truthful, but he does provide an insight into the talking points being sent out by the DNC to their operatives throughout the country. You can see it in the "Letters to the Editor" page of the online newspapers. I urge all Rantburgers to pay attention to your own local papers, and refute any and all bulls$$$ written by your local DNC agent. It really, really gets their panties in a twist - especially the guys. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-18 2:14:57 PM |
| #3 Ya know, we went to war, we're winning, some lives were lost (it's war afterall, and God Bless every one of them), If you're going to bash Bush, bash his plans for the Future, not for the past that can't be changed. |
| Posted by: Xeros Tage 2004-1-18 1:57:14 PM |
| #2 "Hussein?s brutal regime was not an adequate justification for war" Well, I don't know about Ted. but the mass grave of Kurdish children buried with their dolls kind of put me over the top on this one. But then again, I get kind of upset about the thought of someone drowning in a car. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-1-18 1:49:37 PM |
| #1 Good 1st post. And yes it is fun poking fun at the drunks sometimes. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-18 1:35:49 PM |