SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY DISCUSSES AMERICA'S FUTURE IN IRAQ
Speech Delivered at the Johns’ Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
by SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY

We need a serious course correction, and we need it now.  We must make it for the American soldiers who are paying with their lives. We must make it for the American people who cannot afford to spend our resources and national prestige protracting the war in the wrong way. We must make it for the sake of the Iraqi people who yearn for a country that is not a permanent battlefield and for a future free from permanent occupation. 

No matter how many times the Administration denies it, there is no question they misled the nation and led us into a quagmire in Iraq.  President Bush rushed to war on the basis of trumped up intelligence and a reckless argument that Iraq was a critical arena in the global war on terror, that somehow it was more important to start a war with Iraq than to finish the war in Afghanistan and capture Osama bin Laden, and that somehow the danger was so urgent that the U.N. weapons inspectors could not be allowed time to complete their search for weapons of mass destruction.

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