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Ted Kennedy Calls for U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq
2005-01-28
WASHINGTON (al jazeera Reuters) - The United States should start to withdraw militarily and politically from Iraq and aim to pull out all troops as early as possible next year, Sen. Edward Kennedy said on Thursday after he slugged down a 1/2 quart of Wild Turkey. After Sunday's Iraqi elections, Kennedy said President Bush should state he intends to negotiate a timetable with the new Iraqi government to draw down U.S. forces.
Where the heck has he been? In a drunken haze? (I answered my own question)
At least 12,000 U.S. troops should leave at once, Kennedy said, "to send a stronger signal about our intentions to ease the pervasive sense of occupation."
Teddy the Lesser, foreign policy expert. That's right Teddy...let's help further destabilize the situation and endanger the US troops on the ground. Damn...that's exactly what you pushed for in Vietnam. And look how many more soldiers and marines died because of it you treasonous pig?
The Massachusetts Democrat, who opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, became the first senator to lay out a plan for Bush to start withdrawing troops a day after the Pentagon warned lawmakers that strikes by insurgents may increase after Sunday's elections.
What's he running for...lifeguard at the Chappaquiddick??
Besides ending its military presence, Kennedy said the United States must stop making political decisions in Iraq and turn over full authority to the United Nations to help Baghdad set up a new government.
Is this the whiskey talking or is he really that stupid?
He said an international meeting led by the United Nations and Iraq should be convened immediately in Iraq or elsewhere in the Middle East to start that process.
Will it be as effective as the meetings held for the Israel-Paleo "peace" process, or the Sudan?
"We now have no choice but to make the best we can of the disaster we have created in Iraq," Kennedy in a speech to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "The current course is only making the crisis worse."
Ted is f***ing idiot and is endangering the lives of soldiers and marines who have sworn oaths to protect his sorry a**.
He said the indefinite presence of U.S. troops is "fanning the flames of conflict" in what has become "a war against the U.S. occupation."
Talk to the troops you drunken skunk. Talk to the troops.
The Republican National Committee criticized the Senate's leading liberal for delivering "such an overtly pessimistic message only days before the Iraqi election."
He's guilty of sedition and treason...Vietnam redux.
"Kennedy's partisan political attack stands in stark contrast to President Bush's vision of spreading freedom around the world," RNC spokesman Brian Jones said.
What he said.
Kennedy emphasized that Bush must also make it clear that the United States does not intend to have a long-term presence, and announce that it will dramatically reduces its embassy in Baghdad, which is the largest in the world. While many in the Republican-led Senate have expressed dismay as the death toll of U.S. troops stands at more than 1,400, Kennedy is the first to lay out a plan for a troop withdrawal, his office said.
The same kind of cowardly plan that left Mary Jo in an overturned car to die.
In the Republican-led House of Representatives, 24 Democrats this week introduced a resolution calling on Bush to begin an immediate pullout.
Once again democraps pushing politics over the welfare of the troops in harm's way. Vietnam Protests Redux.
The administration has refused to offer a timetable for pulling troops, and Bush on Wednesday said the United States would remain until the new government can defend itself.
We lay out the timetable after we eliminate the bad guys and give the fledgling democracy a chance to survive.
Democrats like Kennedy have been the strongest critics of the war but many Republicans are also concerned, in part because Iraq is costing more than $1 billion a week and has put a great strain on America's military and its budget.
Yes, it has. But we are there, and to win anything less than complete and total victory would be a greater travesty than Vietnam. Walking away would embolden the islamo-cockroaches. Ultimately they would spread their infection to the rest of the Middle Eastern governments, and threaten the Western World.
I dunno. I know that Pres. Bush has been a bit overwhelmed and undertaffed lately, while the good senator was expediting his Cabinet nominees, and I'm delighted that the senator also found time to help draft our foreign policy without even being asked. In fact, the Senate needs a few more go-getters like Kennedy.
Posted by:anymouse

#29  Mr. Kennedy is not a socialist - he is an enemy from within. He is a fascist for his own cause - much more dangerous than a socialist.
Posted by: JP   2005-01-28 9:17:09 PM  

#28  Speaking of which...
Here's one speech by the The Great Pumpkin that you all might enjoy:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedkennedychappaquiddick.htm
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-28 9:08:26 PM  

#27  they died with Mary Jo Kopechne
Posted by: Frank G   2005-01-28 9:02:36 PM  

#26  Ted's Presidential hopes died in the '80 primary.
Posted by: eLarson   2005-01-28 8:59:52 PM  

#25  I'm torn about him shutting up. On one hand he is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. In the long run this will be his legacy in history. He'll be remembered for this like Rather will be remembered for the Burkett docs.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2005-01-28 8:39:59 PM  

#24  I personally feel that he is attempting to set up for the (very distant) possibility that just such an announcement will be made.

If it was made, it would set prop up his drunken ass presidential hopes.

Political posturing. Why couldn't we trade him out for Robert? I'll have to go speak with my connections on the far side of the veil . . .
Posted by: Jame Retief   2005-01-28 8:09:26 PM  

#23  JQC - are you trying to ruin my taste for Wild Turkey?
Posted by: Frank G   2005-01-28 7:58:03 PM  

#22  I'm telling you the Gonzales vote is going to be soooo funny. If you think Black leaders are mad about the Condi vote, wait until Latino leaders see the display next week.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-01-28 7:52:09 PM  

#21  Old Joe Kennedy - Facist asshole
Joeseph Kennedy - Dead
John Kennedy - Dead
Robert Kennedy - Dead
Edward Kennedy - A bum

Hat tip National Lampoon circa 1978 - it was better with the photos.
Posted by: Remoteman   2005-01-28 6:09:15 PM  

#20  after he slugged down a 1/2 quart of Wild Turkey after he slugged down a quart of Wild Turkey (and once again became a wild turkey).
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-28 4:00:27 PM  

#19  James Taranto comments on "the malignantly magniloquent Massachusettsan" in the WSJ's "Best of the Web" (emphasis added):

John F. Kennedy's presidency is hard to evaluate because it was so brief, but he is best known for the soaring rhetoric of his 1961 Inaugural Address . . . Kennedy's brother Ted, whose 15,423 days of service make him the second most senior U.S. senator, is best known for driving off a bridge and leaving a young woman to drown. His attitude toward America's role in the world is the opposite of his brother's; it's best summed up as an inversion of FDR: We have nothing to offer but fear itself. . . .

. . . Ted Kennedy is, as The Wall Street Journal puts it today, "cheerleading for America to fail" because his ideology leaves him unfit to cope with American success. If he has his way, democracy in Iraq will suffer the same fate as Mary Jo Kopechne.


Posted by: Mike   2005-01-28 3:55:53 PM  

#18  giving solace to the enemy. I bet Allawi would like to drive him across a narrow bridge in the middle of the night
Posted by: H8_UBL   2005-01-28 3:26:42 PM  

#17  I've got two words for you Ted, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

(Robert Duvall quote, I think)
Posted by: Bodyguard   2005-01-28 3:20:03 PM  

#16  Teddy's surely a large part of the source of the problems he decries. He should just retire.
Posted by: TKAt   2005-01-28 12:54:41 PM  

#15  Sounds like Teddy dried out dusted off one of his old Hamburger Hill speeches.
He was an ignorant prick then, and he's still an ignorant prick now.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-28 10:37:58 AM  

#14  well its interesting to see Ted does NOT agree with McCain and other Rumsfeld critics. McCain et al think weve had too few troops in Iraq. Ted thinks we have too MANY.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-01-28 9:47:36 AM  

#13  Today's "Day By Day" cartoon speaks to this:

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-01-28 9:34:56 AM  

#12  Not such a bad idea, Ted! Think how much shorter World War II could have been if we declared we were only going to fight the fascists for a year and after that, the hell with it!
Posted by: SteveS   2005-01-28 9:22:15 AM  

#11  badanov, I'm not so sure Teddy is a true Socialist. He seems to espouse socialism with "the government's money" and In wanting more and more Government controls on our everyday lives as long as those same controls don't apply to him and HIS money. I lived in Boston for two years (1991 and 1992) and it amazed me the degree of resignation the people had about the state and local government control over everything. I had spent the two previous years in Portland, Oregon and the contrast was startling. I hadn't really known just how much influence the Kennedys had over Massachusetts politics until I lived there. The take I got was, "Yeah he's a sonofabitch but he brings a lot of Federal money to the State".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-01-28 8:59:42 AM  

#10  Teddy is just like his pappy, Joe Kennedy was a huge Hitler appeaser.

Posted by: Duke Nukem   2005-01-28 7:48:33 AM  

#9  Ted Kennedy is a socialist. A socialist will do or say anything to advance a socialist agenda. It doesn't matter if his words encourage an armed enemy of the USA, it doesn't matter if a US military gets kill by a suicide bomber who decided to become a suicide bomber becuase of Kennedy's speech. The only thing that matters is the agenda.

If Kennedy gets Americans killed, then that is a price he is willing to make others pay. If he stands atop a pile of dead Americans he thinks he really is taller and better than anyone else.

As I have said before:

Liberals love dead Americans, espeically dead US Military.
Posted by: badanov   2005-01-28 7:41:25 AM  

#8  Like Father like Son. Teddy's Pa blamed Roosevelt for Joe's death, not Hitler. If he had had his wish we would be Hieling today.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-01-28 7:29:54 AM  

#7  ...At least Joe, John, and Bobby wore their country's uniform. All Teddy did before he hit the Senate was to get 86'd out of Harvard for cheating.

By the way, is he setting a timetable for letting us know how Mary Jo died? Just asking.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2005-01-28 7:26:34 AM  

#6  Sounds as though someone's getting their money's worth.
Posted by: Bulldog   2005-01-28 7:24:16 AM  

#5  Now, Kennedy said, the United States and the insurgents are both battling for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people and the U.S. is losing.
This is like saying the KKK was just trying to win the hearts and minds of the people it was brutalizing. I really can't decide if he's gone completely insane or if he wants to hurt the Bush Administration so bad he doesn't care how many people die in order to do it. Either way, he's gone lower than I ever thought he would.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-01-28 7:19:30 AM  

#4  That is one hell of a pie hole.
Posted by: Raptor   2005-01-28 7:04:27 AM  

#3  Thanks anymouse, i couldn't have editorialized as well as you did. Everytime see or hear Mr. traitor my blood boils.
Posted by: please stick a fork in him   2005-01-28 5:45:32 AM  

#2  what can you expect from a pos son of a bootlegger--his father took he same tact re the appeasement of hitler as this drunken twit does against islamofascism--who's next at johns hopkins--chimpsky--the wolf must be frothing at his former colleagues for letting this red nosed dunce do his LLL peacenik jig at his former U.
Posted by: SON OF TOLUI   2005-01-28 2:37:49 AM  

#1  Ted "Killer Rapist" Kennedy would be bitch slapped and thrown in the basement if his brothers were still alive. JFK would use a 9 iron on his adams apple...
Posted by: Long Hair Republican   2005-01-28 2:09:58 AM  

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