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Monday, Sept. 27, 2004
Kennedy: Bush Makes U.S. More Vulnerable
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 said Sunday.
In a speech prepared for delivery at George Washington
University on Monday, 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 think 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.