senator ted kennedy to us on the other church no senator wallop
yeah good morning
because we have some some relatives i want to share in the congress of the stuff that
now
and that we better get busy with a
exactly well president efforts and it looks like he's got a new bipartisan group led by
still lieberman's problems to deal with the salads
democrats and that group and one on god's earth with a tell well %uh but first of all
%uh the %uh we have to this country as a understands
that the overarching issue a plastic no bamba
%uh was %uh out instructions
to %uh the congress of the senate and to the president for change direction
now that's been have just about eighty days
now that the president said he didn't want to be right he wanted to talk to generals
you get that in a corsica british general sir didn't agree with them
and we've lost one hundred americans during the time that he has been reviewing and finding
out what new direction
that he wanted to go
and now he has %uh going to injected twenty four thousand americans into a civil war %uh
into %uh %uh into a rock
and that is %um committee chair
%uh a pager mistake i believe
that %uh the congress of the united states
%uh has a responsibility
to the american people to say no
%uh the president wants to send
additional kind of troops
into a baby or to come back to the congress for approval
not to say that he has
an open-ended authorization to do so
%uh day you remember
the authorization that was
past in
%uh october algo q doubt what saddam hussein
violation of the united nations saddam hussein
%uh working
operationally without like that saddam hussein with weapons of mass destruction that that
%uh is
is is active anymore and saddam hussein is gone
and to does anyone really believe that your listening audience
that today we would pass
%uh a resolution of the table we will send
american troops in the middle of what fiat
%uh sumit war that's been going on for thirteen hundred years
and did not have the kind of of the decision making by
%uh the iraqi government
%uh that is going to have good discipline those of malicious
and bring us some of the %uh water out of bacteria senator kennedy introduced legislation
going to beat the is that
to try to hold the speed ministration accountable
of but if this on tuesday won't listen to you tony snow has said quote
has the ability to exercise is below forty if he thinks congress has voted the wrong
way and play
president who didn't know what kind of says if he thinks that you guys voted the wrong
way wealth
presbyterian medical one of the incident but they called signing statement
%um but that he has been recently he said he didn't even need out the authorization
%uh any authorization need to continue this conflict
but if you have the house of representatives in the center of the united states
by denying him
%uh the and of resources
%uh he is the commander in chief
ability to go out to wage war is described in the constitution of the united states
%uh antarctic under article one that remains with the congress and we have the right
%uh to tutored not funded
additional we were talking about is the additional manpower
now that's been done previously
this isn't anything to the congress defect
defense at the time for the escalation powerful proposed escalation of forces in lebanon
and we do that now that %uh in vietnam as well
and that the president had to listen to what so %uh there's just no water reading history
and read the constitution a little more we have the power of the real question
is whether congress will have the courage to do it well let's talk about that your proposal
is
to suggest that
if he wants more troops are more money for those troops he's got a comeback but do you
guys there was some talk on the story broke senator that %uh it might not even get to
a %uh vote aware how is it did
be at least get developed on your proposed well
the the important of
%uh this %uh this legislation isn't the problem
if we wait for an appropriations to come up for the additional kind of money
that'll be at the end of january or february take the senate property five weeks to be
able to to process it
so we wouldn't really have to upload on the of the money for baby two-and-a-half months
by that time
you this racial have all those troops over there and then you'll be casting a vote to
deny them
%uh the body armor
and %uh the the equipment to protect themselves and if that is that that is not
a place where the congress is prepared to go
%uh %uh now
if we acecomm
are not my proposal now we do it within the next two weeks to monopoly xx
so we are able %uh too
and ingest that the president come back to the congress and get the authorization for
the troops
and and poor the bundy spectacle that's the way we ought to go senator kennedy or johnson
sent any from massachusetts is %uh the president's oslo sacrifice but he never saw slice shared
sacrifice he stresses the funding for the
%uh is there any lance's say well if we're going to have sex was it has to share with
the rest of the country you sacrifice your tax cuts for the wealthiest americans and
that's how will pay for the additional funding of the troops
at their minimum
now i think first of all
%uh peter focus of attention ought to be
in in not getting an escalation obscenity additional troops over there four at the time
because it's kind of guy could put them a great arrests were going to break a casualties
it twice in the face of the general's recommendation and of the baker report that that's that's
number one
of the broader issue on the broader issue i think that there's
no real the desire for any increase in taxes on the middle class but i think there are
certainly a recognition that those of the very top one percent of the taxpayers ought
to pay more their fair share i think that'll come on up but i don't think we ought to
by that put together pretty with the search at this this president is staying the course
please escalate at the course
and that is completely in conflict with what
the american people
as set last %ah
westfall and that the congress shouldn't permitted to do it are you aware
senator kennedy
there was a news anchors that %uh flocks of called you a hostile enemy because of your
%uh the proposal you make
well of biotech might
wise but i think the stench you're part of the sports how sad i think that will have
to well i think we want to stay focused on what's important
around here that's that's %uh
i've got a lot of things that was an infant inferior the died the day
the somewhat different because when she wasn't just all part of this
%uh into the iraq war
we ought to be %uh focused on it given our full attention
and also take action center teddy is iraq war winnable at this point
it's seven
%uh that might might might censuses as secretary gates
%uh said it
united states is not winning at the present time
but we have interest in that country we have interest in that region
it is the question %uh are can there be an alteration in changing tactics that can treat
gap reserve our interests
and and also bring some stability through that region i think the answer that yes if
your if you're saying
can we send in twenty four thousand more
american to take a week well i went through
baghdad actually began to that is no last question for you senator kennedy talked about
courage is the beginning
of this conversation
you think that
democrats in congress i don't buy dead
maybe a few republicans
do you think democrats have the courage to truly
and up to the president on so i think it's what the american people are expecting
that seven democratic consultant to me to do that in the united states senate
and i'm hopeful that we'll have the %uh
that we've got a number of collective responses from the upper part of our credit card late
support of this
%uh papa apology and we're going to
contributor grew up
%uh ensure that %uh we get accountability so people across our country we are going
to know
local believes that this escalation
the exceptional police
that it doesn't senator teddy thank you know that i will join us on the interests