When Churls Attack
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It's one thing to characterize the deputy secretary of defense and secretary of defense as liars. That passes for "good morning" on the part of the left. It's probably fine to call the president's nominee for secretary of state dishonest and deceptive. Calling the president a liar, which goes without saying, is completely within the bounds of discourse. But it would seem that a man with even a modicum of common decency, or ever common sense, would at least pause and think about it before claiming that members of the Iraqi security forces are not shedding their blood in this struggle.
One would especially think that before castigating the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in public, with this libel that one might have had one's staff at least read the newspaper if they didn't have time to read intelligence summaries. Like, for instance, here| here| here| here| here| here| here| here| here| here| here| here|
Well if you thought that you would be wrong, or at least you wouldn't be a Democrat senator.
Last week at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Ted Kennedy took time out from slamming the administration to slam Iraqi soldiers and police.
"How long are we going to be there?... How long is it going to take to train Iraqis to fight for their own country, to shed their own blood, as Americans are doing?"
Shed their own blood, indeed.
Kennedy seems to be hittng his stride at this point in his pointless congressional career.
My fondest memories of the last of the useless male Kennedy siblings was how deftly he escaped political suicide by braving a mile of swirling tides at Chappaquidick - just to save an innocent life trapped in the back seat of his car - 12 feet away.
His babbeling, bumbling, lisping sychophancy towards nearly every leftist dictatorship between 1969 and the present presents a laudable testimony to his anti-American maturation during those years.
Today, after decades of worthlessness in both public and private life, Edward Kennedy can look back upon those years with a sense of self-worth and satisfaction normally associated only with the respected elder of the Maoist-wing of what remains of the American Democratic Party.
Congratulations, Teddy. You've outdone even yourself.