Kennedy on Iraq Supplemental

[The Straight Story]

KENNEDY ON IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL
May 24, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mr. President, this so-called compromise doesn’t do nearly enough to end the war, and I intend to vote against it.

I support our troops. They’ve fought bravely and with great courage under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.

But it was wrong for the President to send our troops to war without a plan to win the peace, and it’s wrong for Congress to keep them in harm’s way on the current failed course.

The best way to protect our troops is to bring this war to an end -- not to pour more American lives into the endless black hole our Iraq policy has become.

It’s wrong for Congress to continue to defer to a presidential decision that we know is fatally flawed.

The American people know this war is wrong. It’s wrong to abdicate our responsibility by allowing this war to drag on and on while our casualties mount higher and higher.

The President was wrong to get us into this war, wrong to conduct it so poorly, wrong to ignore the views of the American people, and wrong to stubbornly refuse to sign legislation requiring a timetable for the orderly and responsible withdrawal of our combat troops from Iraq.

It is time to end the continuing tragic loss of American lives and begin to bring our soldiers home. For the sake of our troops, we cannot repeat the mistakes of Vietnam and allow this war to drag on long after the American people know it’s a profound mistake.

http://kennedy.senate.gov/newsroom/press_release.cfm?id=74a03211-7b5d-4aba-87a3-4e1acad77178

[Faux pas]

1. Left On Teddy! n/t

[Forkboy]

2. He says it best...

"It’s wrong for Congress to continue to defer to a presidential decision that we know is fatally flawed."

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