Does Ted Kennedy Get His Talking Points From anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr?
April 5, Moqtada al-Sadr said, “I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the Iraqi people, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the occupying army, to help them in the transfer of power to honest Iraqis. Otherwise, Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers.” April 6, Ted Kennedy said, “We’re facing a quagmire in Iraq just as we faced a quagmire in Vietnam. We didn’t understand what we were getting ourselves into in Vietnam; we didn’t understand what we were doing in Iraq. We had misrepresentations about what we were able to do militarily in Vietnam. I think we were finding that out in Iraq as well. That is basically the similarity, and we have to find new leadership in order to be able to resolve this.” April 7, John McCain ripped Kennedy on the Senate floor, ”It’s a totally false comparison and I know something about Vietnam. I wish he hadn’t said that because I don’t believe, one, there’s any comparison, but two, in all due respec
