Thursday, November 17, 2005

Kennedy Inadvertently Bashes Colleagues Who Voted For the War

From The Political Teen, who has the video:
Russert: But Senator, what the Democrats stood for on the floor of the Senate in 2002, let me show you who said what I just read: John Kerry, your candidate for president. He was talking about a nuclear threat from Saddam Hussein. Hillary Clinton voted for the war. John Edwards, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry. Democrats said the same things about Saddam Hussein. You yourself said quote “Saddam is dangerous, he’s got dangerous weapons.” It wasn’t just the Bush White House.

Kennedy: (with a stricken look): The fact is — and I voted against the war — because every military leader, highly decorated military leader, said it was foolish to have a military intervention. General Hoar, with the Marines, General Hoar who has more silver stars than you could possibly count, said that if we go into Baghdad, it will look like the last five minutes of Private Ryan. So, we know we had enough information to vote against it, I believe.

TigerHawk writes:

Hanging off Russert’s hook, Ted Kennedy made it clear that “we had enough information” to vote against the war ex-ante, effectively denouncing the very idea that pro-war Democrats can rely on the excuse that they “were misled.”
Kennedy can't have it both ways. Either the Senate did have enough information to vote against the war, or they did not because it was hidden from them. Which is it?

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