Ted Kennedy: More than "photo-ops and spin" are needed to win the Iraq war

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush salutes mother whose husband, five sons did Iraq duty

Thursday, August 25, 2005 at 07:51 JST

http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=347227

NAMPA, Idaho — U.S. President George W Bush on Wednesday contrasted a military mother whose five sons and husband have served in Iraq with anti-war protestors he said risked emboldening terrorists. "There are few things in life more difficult than seeing a loved one go off to war. Here, in Idaho, a mom named Tammy Pruett ... knows that feeling six times over," the president said in a speech to citizen soldiers here.

His salute to Pruett was a clear response to anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan, who has besieged the president at his Texas ranch and demanded a meeting with him to discuss the death of her soldier son in Iraq. Bush, who met with relatives of troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan after his speech, has increasingly criticized Sheehan as unrepresentative of most military families he meets.

Bush said Pruett has four sons serving in the Idaho National Guard in Iraq, and that her husband and another son came home from Iraq in 2004 after helping to train firefighters in the city of Mosul. "America lives in freedom because of families like the Pruetts," said Bush, who faced slumping approval ratings and polls showing that a majority of the U.S. public thinks the war in Iraq was a mistake.

Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy said in reaction to Bush's speech, that more than "photo-ops and spin" are needed to win the Iraq war.

[Arkana]

1. More lies, more excuses, and once again Kennedy somehow manages

to nail Jell-O to the wall. I have always liked him.

Oh, and Georgie? The reason you don't hear any opinions contrary to the one expressed by that Idaho mother is because you refuse to do so.

[Frances]

2. OK, all you DUers who think no Dems are speaking out

against this war. Did you take note of Ted Kennedy's words?

[Wetzelbill]

3. Teddy is a great man, Bush probably doesn't qualify as a man ....

in the first place.