Kennedy Says Bush Hurt U.S. And Its Security

[G_j]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A12707-2004Sep10?language=printer

Kennedy Says Bush Hurt U.S. And Its Security

By Helen Dewar
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 11, 2004; Page A06

In a scathing attack on President Bush's handling of Iraq, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) yesterday accused the administration of "arrogant ideological incompetence" and said no president has "done more damage to our country and our security" than Bush.

Kennedy's speech to the Senate -- the latest in a series of attacks on Bush's Iraq policy -- came a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony about the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, which he described as "just one part of a much larger failure" by the administration.

"Because of the Bush administration's arrogant ideological incompetence and its bizarre 'mission accomplished' mentality, our troops and our intelligence officers and our diplomats had neither the resources nor the guidance needed to deal with the worsening conditions that steadily began to overwhelm them and continue to do so," Kennedy said.

"It is preposterous for the administration to pretend that the war in Iraq has made America safer," he added. "No president in America's history has done more damage to our country and our security than George W. Bush."

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[speedoo]

1. You kickass, Teddy!!

eom

[Slit Skirt]

2. have you noticed that repubs

sometimes say edward kennedy when referring to john kerry?

[asjr]

3. Yes, I have heard that many times. Freudian slip?

[Slit Skirt]

6. that's NO mistake

kerry = kennedy.......far left liberal

I heard Cheney say it 3 times in one day......like it was put in the speech

[G_j]

17. really?

Bush may mess up his words but not Cheney. :-(

[belle]

4. Woo! Now: repeat 10,000 times until the message sinks in.

[donkeyotay]

5. "arrogant ideological incompetence" the man said

from the link:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

"It is preposterous for the administration to pretend that the war in Iraq has made America safer," he added. "No president in America's history has done more damage to our country and our security than George W. Bush."
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Them's fighting words. I note that many, myself included, tend to call the democrats spineless wimps, but when democrats do speak out, you have to catch it in the papers or on C-Span.

Speech like this never seems to make in onto CNNABCMSNBCFOX... so, people are left with the impression that democrats don't speak out.

[Bush was AWOL]

7. Ted Kennedy, certainly is not a spineless wimp

[donkeyotay]

9. He sure isn't

But you notice there's no coverage. I've seen plenty of brave, hardworking democrats on C-Span, but no where else.

[ILeft]

12. "arrogant ideological incompetence" fits the neocons nicely

That should be the caption under pictures of traitors like Wolfowitz, Feith, and Perle. The ARE "arrogant ideological incompetence."

The brazen, cruel, short-sighted greed wing of this administration needs some catchy adjectives, too. (Actually, Cheney really embodies both wings.)

"Incompetence" is a word that needs to be repeated every day until people accept it. In addition to all the evil things this administration is, incompetence is the common thread that ties together everything they do to us.

[daydreamer]

8. Kennedy

He should tell Arnold first!

[leftchick]

10. Asia Times has an excellent article backing up Sen. Kennedy.....

after reading it I can't help but wonder how come so many people , even members of congress, still fall for his "I can make the world safer" crap.....

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FI11Ak03.html

<snip>

Three years after September 11, President George W Bush's crusade is a failure. "War on terror" is a meaningless myth: you can't combat a supple attack machine like al-Qaeda with shock and awe. What should have been a long, meticulous police operation was turned by Bush - instigated by his foreign policy adviser, God - into an illegal, preemptive attack on a nation that had nothing to do with terror.

This policy has actually increased terror attacks around the world. Last year in Cairo, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Sheikh Yamani, a man who knows one or two things about Arabs, violence and oil, said the invasion would produce "one hundred bin Ladens". They are here, and they have no one else but Bush to thank.

...Lots more!

[mahina]

11. You can say that again...

"It is preposterous for the administration to pretend that the war in Iraq has made America safer," he added. "No president in America's history has done more damage to our country and our security than George W. Bush."
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That is music to my ears.
If the networks won't report the fact then we'll be the media!

[G_j]

13. the whole speech

is completely awesome. Can't get much more hard hitting.
Its a keeper!

[Just Me]

14. Our humbling experience of a polarizing pResident doesn't compare,...

,...to the delivery of death that these neocon extremists have delivered unto a fairly powerless yet secular population.

If only such predators could be cast into their victims' existence.

[Guaranteed]

15. We need much, much much more of this. nt

[G_j]

16. kick