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Ed Kennedy: War a 'fraud'

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Rudel [OP]

2003-09-19 06:47 | User Profile

[I]I didn't see this one comming. So Democrats have decided to attack Bush on Iraq after all?[/I]

[URL=http://www.msnbc.com/news/968712.asp?0cv=CB10]Kennedy calls case for war a ‘fraud’[/URL]

BOSTON, Sept. 18 — The case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud “made up in Texas” to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward Kennedy said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Kennedy also said the Bush administration has failed to account for nearly half of the $4 billion the war is costing each month. He said he believes much of the unaccounted-for money is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send in troops. He called the Bush administration’s current Iraq policy “adrift.” The Massachusetts Democrat expressed doubts about how serious a threat Saddam Hussein posed to the United States in its battle against terrorism. He said administration officials relied on “distortion, misrepresentation, a selection of intelligence” to justify their case for war.
“There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud,” Kennedy said. Kennedy said a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office showed that only about $2.5 billion of the $4 billion being spent monthly on the war can be accounted for by the Bush administration.
“My belief is this money is being shuffled all around to these political leaders in all parts of the world, bribing them to send in troops,” he said. Of the $87 billion in new money requested by President Bush for the war, Kennedy said the administration should be required to report back to the Congress to account for the spending. “We want to support our troops because they didn’t make the decision to go there ... but I don’t think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report,” he added. Kennedy said the focus on Iraq has drawn the nation’s attention away from more direct threats, including al-Qaida, instability in Afghanistan or the nuclear ambitions of North Korea. “I think all of those pose a threat to the security of the people of Massachusetts much more than the threat from Iraq,” Kennedy said. “Terror has been put on the sidelines for the last 12 months.”

Sertorius

2003-09-19 07:15 | User Profile

Rudel,

At this moment, the only person I dislike more than Kennedy is Brit Hume. I watched Special Report (disinformation digest) and here is Hume trying to act innocent by asking rhetorically: "Does anyone know what he is talking about?" Of course Hume knows damn well, for his was one on the biggest liars pushing this crap. At one point he asked the reporter what Kennedy meant by "bribing" allies for troops. I bet that s.o.b. knows about Wolfowitz's attempt to bribe the Turks with $35 billion dollars back in February. Maybe "bribe" is too strong a word, but to anyone who has been following the antics of the neo-cons understands that at the end this is a bribe, though they would prefer the term "statemanship."

Kennedy only made one mistake from the parts that Fox Jew News aired and that was when he said the war was planned in Texas in January. It would have been far more accurate to say that it was planned back in 1998 by "American" Jews (Perle, Wolfowitz) working for Netanyahu and presenting him their plan on securing the rein for the Likud.

When it comes to parsing the meaning of words, neo-cons like Hume, who also writes for the Weekly Standard, are every bit as bad as Clinton with his nonsense about how it "depends on the meaning of is, is."

Ruffin

2003-09-19 15:39 | User Profile

I guess we can expect a new investigation into Chappaquiddick soon.