Of the four Kennedy boys–Joseph, John, Robert, and Edward–the one of whom not much was ever expected was the youngest. He was always considered to be the least serious and least intelligent, and fell into his position by default–he really wasn’t capable of doing anything except politics.
But even Ted Kennedy is smart enough to understand that Iraq is not Vietnam. Equating the number of troops in Iraq today with the number in Vietnam in 1965 is hardly a valid reason to call Iraq “Bush’s Vietnam.” Yet that’s what he does. He also claims the jihadists have the same goal that we do: The hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Somehow, I just can’t see that.
Then he calls for the one thing that would ensure Iraq is Bush’s Vietnam–he says we need to pull the troops out.
From the Boston Herald:
Just three days before the Iraqi people go to the polls to elect a new government, the Massachusetts Democrat said America must give Iraq back to its people rather than continue an occupation that parallels the failed politics of the Vietnam war.
For those of you too young to remember, we didn’t lose the war in Vietnam, we ran away. Kennedy wants us to do just that. And the politics involved have nothing in common except that the US is involved.
I cannot really understand why the leading Democrats have not, to my knowledge, come out in support of the Iraqi people by condemning the jihadists and encouraging a big voter turnout this Sunday. I know why. I just don’t understand it. They are apparently willing to see as many people die as necessary in hopes those deaths will be an embarrassment to Bush.
What is it about Bush, different from other politicians, that causes them to hate him so much that others’ lives are irrelevant? This call by Kennedy, three days before the Iraqi elections, can serve no other purpose than to encourage jihadists to murder. It is also a prelude to the certain claims by Kennedy and his ilk that the elections, once completed, are invalid and another “catastrophic failure.”