{"article":{"id":83519,"heading":"Sen. Kennedy Says Case for Iraq War Was Fraud","author":"systemfailure","created":"2003-09-19 19:11:18","modified":"2003-09-19 21:25:32","last_modified":"Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:25:32","article":"

SADDAM NOT RELATED TO 911.

SMALLPOX SCARE A SCAM.

NO WMD'S FOUND.......

The case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud \"made up in Texas\" to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward Kennedy said Thursday.



In an interview with The Associated Press, Kennedy also said the Bush administration has failed to account for nearly half of the $4 billion the war is costing each month. He said he believes much of the unaccounted-for money is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send in troops.

He called the Bush administration's current Iraq policy \"adrift.\"

The White House declined to comment Thursday.

The Massachusetts Democrat also expressed doubts about how serious a threat Saddam Hussein posed to the United States in its battle against terrorism. He said administration officials relied on \"distortion, misrepresentation, a selection of intelligence\" to justify their case for war.

\"There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud,\" Kennedy said.

Kennedy said a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office showed that only about $2.5 billion of the $4 billion being spent monthly on the war can be accounted for by the Bush administration.

\"My belief is this money is being shuffled all around to these political leaders in all parts of the world, bribing them to send in troops,\" he said.

Of the $87 billion in new money requested by President Bush for the war, Kennedy said the administration should be required to report back to the Congress to account for the spending.

\"We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there ... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report,\" he added.

Kennedy said the focus on Iraq has drawn the nation's attention away from more direct threats, including al-Qaida, instability in Afghanistanor the nuclear ambitions of North Korea .

\"I think all of those pose a threat to the security of the people of Massachusetts much more than the threat from Iraq,\" Kennedy said. \"Terror has been put on the sidelines for the last 12 months.\"<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Oh no!! Not another Un-patriotic American saying that the Bush Administration was full of shit.....\r\nWill the brainwashed masses believe?","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/09\/83519.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":83523,"heading":"sick of it all","article":"bush lies \r\nwe die\r\n\r\nspend your lives\r\ndefending defending their lies\r\n\r\nsoldiers die \r\nwarring nations\r\nand who gets rich\r\noil corporations\r\n\r\nmakes me sick","author":"bushit parade","parent_id":83519,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-09-19 19:21:20","modified":"2005-08-15 01:41:45","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/09\/hjh.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/09\/hjh.jpg"}},{"id":83525,"heading":"^","article":"This is to remind you that with activists, the world did not record history prior to 1930's Nazi Germany.\r\n\r\nThank You.","author":"teacher","parent_id":83519,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-19 19:54:57","modified":"2003-09-19 19:54:57","fileurl":""},{"id":83527,"heading":"Kennedy another player","article":"Hey, Kennedy, did you just wake up? A little too much gin, aye! Did you ever learn to swim? Where were you before we killed and wounded many! \r\nI hope they are able to stop any more unconstitutional wars that they may try to sell to us. Korea, Syria, Iran, Russia, and Saudia Arabia all look like possibilities.","author":"Happy Rosh Hashanah","parent_id":83519,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-19 19:58:07","modified":"2003-09-19 19:58:07","fileurl":""},{"id":83548,"heading":"ever notice....","article":"ever notice how these right wing republicrats\r\ncan never address the main point of the article?\r\n\r\nThey set up the straw man (agument ad hominem)\r\nand claim that they are correct.\r\n\r\nwhey love to spend taxpayer money rebuilding iraq\r\nbut not to rebuild america?\r\n\r\nfools the lot of them.","author":"bush arrested for cocaine 1972","parent_id":83519,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-19 21:27:14","modified":"2003-09-19 21:27:14","fileurl":""}]}