Wednesday - April 05, 2006

Blubber-Butt Bloviates

Not to put too fine a point on it but if President Bush had followed the example of John Kennedy, Bush would have gathered together thousands of Iraqi expatriates, given them weapons, promised air support when they invaded Iraq and then pulled out at the last mnute, leaving them to die on the beaches. Or am I the only one who remembers the Bay Of Pigs invasion ... ?

Kennedy Book Blasts Bush, ‘Preventive War’
_{April 5, 2006}

WASHINGTON (BOSTON GLOBE)—In a forthcoming book, Senator Edward M. Kennedy invokes the leadership of his brothers during the Cuban missile crisis to launch a sharp new attack on President Bush, declaring that Bush should have followed the example of President John F. Kennedy and his attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy, in forging a diplomatic resolution to the standoff with Saddam Hussein.

The Massachusetts Democrat writes that his brothers were right to resist advice urging them to launch a preemptive strike on Fidel Castro when missiles aimed at the United States were discovered in Cuba in 1962. They correctly argued that ‘’a first strike was inconsistent with American values,” and would be a ‘’Pearl Harbor in reverse,” he writes.

Kennedy writes that preemptive war may be justified to prevent ‘’an imminent attack on our country.” But he puts the Iraq war in a different category that he calls ‘’preventive war,” which he condemns.

‘’The premeditated nature of preventive attacks and preventive wars makes them anathema to well-established international principles against aggression,” Kennedy writes in ‘’America Back on Track,” which is scheduled to be released April 18.

Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, Kennedy says, was an example of ‘’preventive war”—attacking a nation to prevent it from developing the ability to threaten the United States. A similar manner of thinking led the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, he writes, since Japan was seeking to block the US military buildup in the Pacific.

‘’Preventive war is consistent with neither our values nor our national security,” he writes. ‘’It gives other nations an excuse to violate fundamental principles of civilized international behavior, and the downward spiral we initiate could well engulf the whole planet.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2006 at 10:26 AM   
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