Kennedy Slams Bush on Iraq Progress

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Kennedy Slams Bush on Iraq Progress
Monday, September 27, 2004

LOVE the comment about his brother, President Kennedy...

Kennedy Speech on Iraq War
WASHINGTON — Bush administration failures to shut down Al Qaeda (search) and rebuild Iraq (search) have fueled the insurgency and made the United States more vulnerable to a nuclear attack by terrorists, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (search) says.

In a speech prepared for delivery at George Washington University on Monday, Kennedy said that by shifting attention from Usama bin Laden to Iraq, President Bush (search) had increased the danger of a "nuclear 9/11." He said it was a good thing Bush was not in charge during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a nuclear confrontation with Russia when Kennedy's brother was president.

"The war in Iraq has made the mushroom cloud more likely, not less likely," Kennedy said. Using imagery from the Vietnam War, he said U.S. soldiers are bogged down in a quagmire with no end in sight....

Kennedy said that the administration's failure 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.

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