Kennedy Iraq rant hits a partisan low( Boston Herald)

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Kennedy Iraq rant hits a partisan low
By A Boston Herald editorial
Thursday, January 15, 2004
http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/opinion.bg?articleid=195&format=

There is civil discourse and there are always legitimate differences over policy in American politics, and then there is the jihad launched by Sen. Ted Kennedy against President Bush.


The senior senator from Massachusetts charged yesterday, in a speech to the liberal Center for American Progress, that Bush and his advisers used the fear created by the Sept. 11 attacks and put ``a spin on the truth to justify a war that could well become one of the worst blunders in more than two centuries of American foreign policy.


Not surprisingly, Kennedy took a certain glee in the recent remarks of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill who insists regime change in Iraq was on the Bush agenda from Day One. (That it was also official U.S. policy since 1998 is one of those inconvenient facts that seems not to bother either man.)

But Kennedy took O'Neill's allegations one step further insisting that Bush's ``axis of war'' - Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz - turned to Iraq in an effort to divide Congress, distract Americans from the tough economy and score points during the 2002 mid-term elections.


Kennedy's warped world view takes partisanship to a new depth and therein lies a tremendous risk for his own party.

[Terwilliger]

1. oh for pity's sake, a jihad????

Maybe these idiots weren't watching as the Republican party EN MASSE went after Clinton. Un-frickin'-believeable!

[indepat]

12. Unfrickin'-believable sums it up very well.

[Robroy]

2. I relished every word

The brutality of truth hurts only those who would deny it.

[el_gato]

7. I guess you loved all the lies to justify the invasion too

When are you gonna sign up in the halliburton army?

[w4rma]

10. I think Robroy is refering to Kennedy's words that he relished. (n/t)

[ixion]

3. this is garbage

I get really tired of whiny rethugs who cry foul everytime someone speaks the truth.

[meegbear]

4. Since the Boston Herald HATES Teddy and anyone a Democrat...

I don't take any of their opinions seriously.

Edit: Wrong Paper - D'OTH!!

[Caution]

5. you mean the herald

the Globe is an actual paper. The Herald is one step (and one baby step at that) above teh NY Post.

[meegbear]

6. Thank you and my apologies ...

Got the Globe right in front of me and I wasn't thinking.

[bowens43]

8. Telling the truth now partisan.

??

[tom_paine]

9. And what else would one expect from Bushevik Pravda?

Expecting anything different would be like expecting the Soviet Pravda's "The Observer" to wrtie glowingly about capitalism.

It just isn't going to happen.

As we've seen, not only do Totalitarians need media, too...in the end, they need ALL the media.

The Boston Herald isn't a newspaper as we remember them from the Days of the Old Republic. It is a Party Newspaper, like the Old Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

Nothing more and nothing less.

[OneBlueSky]

11. consider the source . . .

the Herald is right up there with the NY Post on the rag scale . . . both make good bird cage lining, though . . .

[pinto]

13. only the Herald rag could equate partisanship w/jihad...and pretend

to be a serious newspaper while doing it. Well, Manchester Union (NH) would probably try it, too....