MR_GRUMPY
09-27-2004, 08:40 AM
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:39 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2004WASHINGTON - 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 charged Monday.
In a speech prepared for delivery at George Washington University, 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.
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.
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.
On the economic front, Kennedy 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.
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.
Do you want Bush's finger "on the button." ????????
Updated: 10:39 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2004WASHINGTON - 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 charged Monday.
In a speech prepared for delivery at George Washington University, 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.
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.
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.
On the economic front, Kennedy 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.
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.
Do you want Bush's finger "on the button." ????????