Ted Kennedy: Big Fat Doodiehead

Talk about fear-mongering. If the DNC keeps complaining about the Bush administration creating fear among the American people, I think the DNC should put its money where its mouth is with this story:

Kennedy says Bush makes U.S. more vulnerable to nuclear attack
By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press, 9/26/2004

WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration's failure to shut down al-Qaida and rebuild Iraq have fueled the insurgency and made the United States more vulnerable to a nuclear attack by terrorists, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Sunday.

In a speech prepared for delivery at George Washington University on Monday, Kennedy said that by shifting attention from Osama bin Laden to Iraq, Bush has increased the danger of a ''nuclear 9/11.''

''The war in Iraq has made the mushroom cloud more likely, not less likely,'' he said in the remarks released late Sunday.

Newsflash! The danger of a "nuclear 9/11" has always been there. Taking out a country like Iraq has actually decreased this likelihood.

Expanding on earlier suggestions that Iraq is Bush's Vietnam, Kennedy said U.S. soldiers are bogged down in a quagmire with no end in sight.

I wonder if Kennedy would say the same thing about the US fighting in Guadalcanal during WWII. He sounds like a spokesman for the terrorists in Iraq. This guy is in serious need of a beating.

He said it was a good thing Bush was not in charge during the Cuban missile crisis, one of the darker periods of his late brother's John Kennedy's time as president.

There's a big difference here: We KNEW that Cuba had nuclear weapons. In Iraq, Saddam was dangerously close to acquiring them. North Korea or Iran would be a task more comparable to Cuba, and things would have been much more difficult invading that country, since they possess an estimated 6-8 nuclear weapons, perhaps more.

On the economic front, he said the administration's failures to distribute billions of dollars in reconstruction funds and create enough local Iraqi jobs may have been the biggest factors leading to the rise of the insurgency there.

All right! Democrats starting up with socio-financial policy in Iraq! Yes, Ted, why didn't I think of this one! More social programs, yay!

Kennedy has been pummeling the Bush administration in daily speeches in the Senate, serving as one of the most aggressive flame-throwers for Democrat John Kerry's presidential campaign. Bush, meanwhile, has charged Kerry with flip-flopping on Iraq.

In defense of Bush's policies, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., appearing Sunday on CBS' ''Face the Nation'' along with Kennedy, said the United States must stay the course in Iraq until the fight is done, and that criticism of the war like that coming from Kennedy will hurt the cause in the Middle East.

Kennedy's Monday speech details 13 reasons why Bush's policies have not made the United States safer from terrorism. Among other things, he said the war in Iraq created a new breeding ground for terrorists, distracted from efforts to eliminate al-Qaida, alienated America's allies and allowed North Korea and Iran to pursue nuclear weapons.

Yeah, whatever. If Massachusetts is stupid enough to keep this guy as its senator, who's to say Kerry would be any different? California senators notwithstanding, but that's another issue altogether.