The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Friday, September 19, 2003  

TOUGH WORDS FROM SEN. KENNEDY
Calls Case for War “A Fraud”

Tough words from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) yesterday in an interview with the Associated Press (“Kennedy Says Case for War Built on ‘Fraud’,” by Steve LeBlanc, as published in the Washington Post):

The case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud “made up in Texas” to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said today. […]

He called the Bush administration’s Iraq policy “adrift.”

Kennedy expressed doubts about how serious a threat Saddam Hussein posed to the United States. He said administration officials relied on “distortion, misrepresentation, a selection of intelligence” to make their case for war.

“There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud,” Kennedy said.

You know, Sen. Kennedy would make a pretty good blogger, I think.

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