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Iraq war an 'intractable quagmire': Ted Kennedy (24/6/5) |
Iraq war an 'intractable quagmire': Ted Kennedy
AM - Friday, 24 June , 2005 08:12:00
Reporter: Leigh Sales
TONY EASTLEY: There have been sharp words exchanged in a feisty hearing
in the United States Congress about how the Bush administration is
handling Iraq.
Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld fronted the Senate Armed Services
Committee today, as a number of polls show public support for American
involvement in Iraq slipping even further.
Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy told Mr Rumsfeld he had made "gross
errors" in Iraq, which had become an "intractable quagmire." The
Defence chief responded by saying he'd already offered his resignation
twice to the President, but it had been refused.
From Washington, North America Correspondent Leigh Sales reports.
LEIGH SALES: Senator Kennedy didn't hold back.
TED KENNEDY: Secretary Rumsfeld, as you know, we are in serious trouble
in Iraq, and this war has been consistently and grossly mismanaged, and
we are now in a seemingly intractable quagmire. Our troops are dying,
and there really is no end in sight.
Our troops deserve better, Mr Secretary, I think the American people
deserve better. They deserve competency, and they deserve the facts. In
baseball it's three strikes and you're out. What is it for the
Secretary of Defence?
LEIGH SALES: Mr Rumsfeld took a deep breath when the Democrat finished.
DONALD RUMSFELD: Well, that is quite a statement. First, let me say
that there isn't a person at this table who agrees with you that we're
in a quagmire, and that there's no end in sight. The suggestion by you
that people - me or others - are painting a rosy picture is false.
I think that the comments you made are certainly yours to make, and I
don't agree with them.
TED KENNEDY: Well, my time has just expired, but Mr Secretary, I'm
talking about the misjudgements and the mistakes that have been made,
the series which I've mentioned. Those are on your watch. Isn't it time
for you to resign?
DONALD RUMSFELD: Senator, I have offered my resignation to the
President twice, and he's decided that he would prefer that he not
accept it. And that's his call.
LEIGH SALES: It's not just Democrats who are increasingly critical on
Iraq. Prominent Republicans are also urging the administration to come
up with an exit strategy, and be honest with the American public about
what it's going to take to stabilize the fledgling democracy.
The Secretary of Defence is frustrated that people aren't acknowledging
positive developments.
DONALD RUMSFELD: The reality is that they are making political progress
without question. The reality is that the American forces that are
training and equipping and mentoring the Iraqi security forces are
doing a darn good job, and the number has been going up steadily and
consistently.
LEIGH SALES: Mr Rumsfeld laid down the conditions for a successful US
troop withdrawal.
DONALD RUMSFELD: It will depend on the extent to which the various
ethnic factions reconcile, and they're now doing that; the level of
support from the international community, and the timing will depend on
Iraq's neighbours as well, whose behaviour continues to be unhelpful.
LEIGH SALES: The Bush administration has never budged in its insistence
that the war in Iraq was necessary to protect Americans from terrorists
and weapons of mass destruction.
But they've failed to persuade most Americans of that. The latest
CNN/Gallup poll shows 56 per cent of people believe going to war was
the wrong decision.
This is Leigh Sales in Washington for AM.
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24 Jun 2005 04:46:03 PM |
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Kennedy's brain is a quagmire!
Jane
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24 Jun 2005 05:11:15 AM |
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from the website:
www.abc.net.au/news
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| Title: Re: Iraq war an 'intractable quagmire': Ted Kennedy (24/6/5) |
24 Jun 2005 10:56:48 AM |
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Ted Kennedy is a braindead moron.
Tony
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| Title: Re: Iraq war an 'intractable quagmire': Ted Kennedy (24/6/5) |
24 Jun 2005 05:07:09 PM |
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wrote:
Ted Kennedy is a braindead moron.
Tony
Seen Mary Jo lately?
--
Kurt Weber
kurt@vacommunity.net
Total free-market capitalism: the ONLY moral system
Help stop socialism: vote Libertarian!
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