Ted Kennedy speaking at event to attack Bush on Iraq reads his old pro-war speech for Clinton by mistake.

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Ted Kennedy speaking at event to attack Bush on Iraq reads his old pro-war speech for Clinton by mistake.

Teddy then, Teddy now.

According to a Meet the Press transcript (found by Jonah Goldberg), a year before Saddam Hussein threw the inspectors out of Iraq (in 1998) and a year before Ted Kennedy voted for the 1998 Iraqi Liberation Act, which Bill Clinton signed, making it official U.S. policy to bring about the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Kennedy told Tim Russert that America could no longer tolerate Saddam's intransigence:

I don't think we should rule anything out, even military force. Those sites have to be accessible. They have to be available. They have to be inspected...I support the president's movement of military forces into the region and I think it has to be very, very clear to Saddam Hussein that those sites are going to have to be accessible and available, otherwise there's — nothing will be ruled out.

Yesterday, Ted Kennedy gave a speech denouncing Operation Iraqi Freedom and characterizing it as a purely political ploy hatched in Texas by Bush motivated by nothing other than political advantage. These comments are in addition to his previous accusations that Bush launched the war to serve the financial interests of his supporters.

Nowhere is the danger to our country and to our founding ideals more evident than in the decision to go to war in Iraq.... Despite protestations to the contrary, the President and his senior aides began the march to war in Iraq in the earliest days of the Administration, long before the terrorists struck this nation on 9/11..... After that [the first Persian Gulf War] ended, Wolfowitz convened a Pentagon working group to make the case that regime change in Iraq could easily be achieved by military force. The Wolfowitz group concluded that "U.S. forces could win unilaterally or with the aid of a small group of a coalition of forces within 54 days of mid to very high intensity combat." .... The following year, Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and 16 others-10 of whom are now serving in or officially advising the current Bush Administration-wrote President Clinton, urging him to use military force to remove Saddam. They said, "The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action, as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy." .... That was 1998. President Clinton was in office, and regime change in Iraq did become the policy of the Clinton Administration-but not by war.¹ .... Saddam's attempted assassination of President Bush during a visit to Kuwait in 1993 added fuel to the debate.

·¹·Emphasis added by me. The 1998 resolution did not contain a "not by war" caveat; this is an example of Kennedy's after-the-fact, revisionist editorialization, which stands in stark contrast to his statements to Tim Russert (quoted at the beginning of this commentary) a year earlier.

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