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Kennedy: Bush Iraq Plan a 'Pearl Harbor in Reverse'
NewsMax.com ^
| 10/07/02
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 10/07/2002 10:38:22 PM PDT by kattracks
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said Monday that U.S. plans for preemptive action against Iraq reminded him of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor 61 years ago.
Debating President Bush's request for congressional authority to make war, Kennedy warned the Senate that a U.S. Iraq attack would be "a Pearl Harbor in reverse," according to the Associated Press.
He urged the Bush White House to use the same restraint President John F. Kennedy did in not attacking Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis.
Sen. Kennedy made no reference to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba a year earlier: the ill-fated CIA operation approved by his brother that prompted Fidel Castro to invite the Soviet Union to position nuclear missiles 90 miles off U.S. shores.
In urging Bush to show restraint towards Saddam Hussein, Sen. Kennedy seemed to be following in the footsteps of his late father, Joseph P. Kennedy, who, as Ambassador to the Court of St. James in 1939, argued that the U.S. should make a separate peace with Adolf Hitler.
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posted on
10/07/2002 10:38:22 PM PDT
by
kattracks
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
How in the hell could Teddy and JFK be brothers? One of them got switched at birth
3
posted on
10/07/2002 10:42:00 PM PDT
by
bybybill
To: Texas_Jarhead
Really. How much longer is that pickled liver of Ted going to keep functioning.
To: kattracks
It would be Pearl Harbor in reverse, because we have publically disclosed what we intend to do, which the Japanese didn't do.
5
posted on
10/07/2002 10:42:26 PM PDT
by
coloradan
To: coloradan
Kennedy is a loser. Put a sock in it Ted!
6
posted on
10/07/2002 10:46:39 PM PDT
by
Wphile
To: Texas_Jarhead
where's that serial sniper when you need him... seems to me that worrying about sodamn-insane should be secondary til we clean out the house and senate of America's home grown enemies,,,
vsm
To: kattracks
What did you guys expect? Teddy sat at pappy Old Joe's feet when he was licking Hitler's boots.
8
posted on
10/07/2002 10:48:47 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: kattracks
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said Monday that U.S. plans for preemptive action against Iraq reminded him of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor 61 years ago. There won't be anything sneak about THIS attack. It'll be "I'm comin' after you Saddam" and the bombs will rain forthwith.
To: kattracks
Be nice to Teddy.
It's just the syphilis talking.
10
posted on
10/07/2002 10:51:40 PM PDT
by
RodgerD
To: RodgerD
I thought it was the high test ethyl alcohol.
To: bybybill
How in the hell could Teddy and JFK be brothers? One of them got switched at birth...
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They were two peas in a pod. Neither of the were/are too bright. Both were/are psychopaths. Jack was better looking and had a bit of Irish wit. He also had Ted Sorenson writing books and speeches for him.
12
posted on
10/07/2002 11:02:54 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: kattracks
What needs to be done is to declare Massachusetts a no-man's land unprotected by the United States and subject to attack by any terrorist group. If they get nuked up there it result in an improvement in the United States and the trash they send to national office will no longer be a problem.
13
posted on
10/07/2002 11:08:10 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: kattracks
"He urged the Bush White House to use the same restraint President John F. Kennedy did ... Sen. Kennedy made no reference to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba..."
LMAO
To: kattracks
Sneak attack when all you see on TV and in the papers are American warplans?
Kennedy does not want to go to war why? Too much money spent on military and defense instead of his "programs" and pork?
He is the perfect example of why we need term limits - to prevent a Ted Kennedy - fat cat politician.
15
posted on
10/07/2002 11:11:51 PM PDT
by
ClancyJ
To: ClancyJ
Kennedy does not want to go to war why?
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He thinks he's in the forefront of appealing to the hippie intellectual left. Unfortunately Massachusetts is filled with glorified hippies and it gets him reelected.
16
posted on
10/07/2002 11:23:47 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: kattracks
So says the swimmer and murderer.
To: RLK
I keep forgetting that some of those senators DO have hippies and socialists for constituents. Yes - the left rules there.
18
posted on
10/07/2002 11:32:25 PM PDT
by
ClancyJ
To: coloradan
It would be Pearl Harbor in reverse, because we have publically disclosed what we intend to do, which the Japanese didn't do.Not to mention the fact that there is no moral relationship between what Japan did to us and what we are about to do to Iraq.
Comment #20 Removed by Moderator
Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
To: kattracks
"a Pearl Harbor in reverse," What would he have our President do? Wait for another "Pearl Harbor"?!
To: Eagle Eye 2
He still looks better than Hillary.
24
posted on
10/08/2002 12:04:50 AM PDT
by
Timesink
To: kattracks
Falwell says something provocative about Islam and it's all over every media outlet. Kennedy says something provocative and despicible and there seems to be nary a word. Just like the Feinstein "ashamed to wear her flag pin" remark.
25
posted on
10/08/2002 12:22:06 AM PDT
by
zook
To: kattracks
Ted Kennedy increasingly reminds me of the parallel universe President Joseph Kennedy who ruled America in Robert P. Harris' Vaterland world. You know, the one where Hitler still ruled in the 60s and the U.S was trying to pursue detente and appeasement with the Nazi Empire. In view of the tenor of The Swimmer's remarks, its all too clear today's Democrats are not the same as those who belonged to his late brother's party.
To: coloradan
"It would be Pearl Harbor in reverse, because we have publically disclosed what we intend to do, which the Japanese didn't do." Obviously, Ted's comment is "Demo-speak". In addition to your comment above, Pearl Harbor was a smashing defeat for the US. A "Pearl Harbor in reverse" obviously means that Teddie Chappaquiddic thinks the Iraq campaign will be a smashing victory for the US.
To: Wonder Warthog
Ted obviously fears a smashing U.S victory over Iraq would only highlight the irrelevance and impotence of his gang of Baghdad Democrats.
To: kattracks
Have another drink, Ted.
To: kattracks
Hand Teddy a long island iced tea, he'll forget all about it.
30
posted on
10/08/2002 3:08:49 AM PDT
by
exnavy
To: exnavy
When Teddy talks about anyplace with WATER, we should listen!!!! (or else)
To: Gillmeister
Good point, didn't think of that!
32
posted on
10/08/2002 3:11:37 AM PDT
by
exnavy
To: kattracks
Our battleships will catch the Japanese airplanes by surprise and sink them?
33
posted on
10/08/2002 3:12:54 AM PDT
by
Junior
To: The Great Satan
If Teddy Kennedy had driven a Volkswagon, he'd be ex-President Kennedy today.
34
posted on
10/08/2002 3:14:07 AM PDT
by
Samwise
To: bybybill
...Sen. Kennedy seemed to be following in the footsteps of his late father, Joseph P. Kennedy, who...argued that the U.S. should make a separate peace with Adolf Hitler. Precious! LOL.
To: Petronski
Teddy obviously thinks the US Air Force will attack Saddams's Fleet of boats in Baghdad Harbor.
36
posted on
10/08/2002 4:05:40 AM PDT
by
C210N
To: kattracks
Anytime Ted, Baldwin, Streisand or Anti-Americans of their ilk want to don a towel on their head, start dating camels, set up their domicile in the largest kitty litter box, let us know so we can throw a party!
37
posted on
10/08/2002 4:11:14 AM PDT
by
Lilly
To: sheik yerbouty
So says the swimmer...I think he's just a floater.
To: The Great Satan
re: post #22
Awesome site! Should be warning before they showed Teddy in swimwear. Will now by-pass breakfast.
39
posted on
10/08/2002 4:27:01 AM PDT
by
Lilly
To: kattracks
Take our Senate delegation, please! When our Senate delegation sits around the House, it sits around the House...
To: kattracks
That analogy more aptly applies to George Bush, Sr. than to the present situation. Did the Japanese retaliate for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
41
posted on
10/08/2002 4:55:18 AM PDT
by
TiaS
To: kattracks
A more apt comparison would be whether, if America had knowledge of the Japanese fleet, we should have launched a preemptive strike, or per Teddy's advice, waited until the bombs were falling on Hawaii before responding.
42
posted on
10/08/2002 5:00:04 AM PDT
by
SJackson
To: bybybill
To: The Great Satan
To: vinylsidingman
TAKE BACK THE SENATE!
VOTE OUT THE DEMS!
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posted on
10/08/2002 5:37:03 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: kattracks
GReat strategy, tell Saddam in advance that he won't be attacked and that we trust him fully.
To: The Great Satan
Reminds me of my favorite political bumper sticker of all time:
Kennedy in '72
A Blonde in Every Pond!
To: Petronski
I agree! It is useful to remind everyone that good Democrat Joe Kennedy was an appeaser and admirer of Hitler!
To: kattracks
If he thinks Iraq would be Pearl Harbor in reverse, he must have been royally pissed about the Bay of Pigs.
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