Senate Proceeding 09-06-06 on Sep 6th, 2006 :: 5:25:03 to 5:29:37
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Speech By: Edward Kennedy

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Edward Kennedy: mr. stevens: would the senator yield? i ask my comments not interrupt the senator's speech in the record. would the senator yield to me? we have a time agreement -- mr. carper: i'm happy to yield. mr.

5:25:03 to 5:25:14( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: stevens: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that following the disposition of the reid amendment there be a period for 30 minutes equally divided in relation to the kennedy mental, number 4885 with

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Speech By: John Warner

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John Warner: no second-degree amendments in order prior to a vote in relation to that amendment, provided further that following the vote there be a ten-minute time equally divided in the usual form prior to

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John Warner: a vote in relation to the murkowski -- mikulski amendment 4895 with no second degree in order prior to that vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: mr. president, we have no objection

5:25:38 to 5:25:48( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: on our side. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. stevens: i thank the senator. the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: what i was saying is -- i was responding on senator

5:25:48 to 5:26:03( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: mccain's rhetorical question. would we be having this debate if it were not september of an election year, an even-numbered year. in 1992, i was a member of the house. we had voted to authorize

5:26:03 to 5:26:16( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: the use of force to compel, really the force the iraqis out of kuwait and to follow them into iraq. 18 months later in september of 1992, we were having debates. it was a presidential electiony, but one

5:26:16 to 5:26:28( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: of the things we weren't debating at that time was the wisdom of going after the iraqis, getting them out of kuwait and forcing them as far up into iraq to baghdad. the reason why we're having this

5:26:28 to 5:26:37( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: debate today is not because it's an election year and not because it's september of an election year but because of how badly too much of our efforts in that part of the world have been managed.

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John Warner: not a reflection of our troops. they have served us valiantly. they continue to do so. if the shoe were on the other foot, i say to my friends on the other side, be honest with yourselves. if the

5:26:51 to 5:27:08( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: shoe were on the other foot, if we had a democratic administration, a democratic president, secretary of defense appointed by that democratic president, if we were in a war that the secretary of defense alleged

5:27:08 to 5:27:20( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: would cause $50 billion to $60 billion and in reality it was costing ten to 20 times that amount, if we were in a war that was expected to last maybe six months and we're in it three years later with

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John Warner: no sight in end, if we were in a war where we basically said a democratic administration has said to the iraqi army, go home, we don't need you, if we were in a situation where instead of fostering a situation

5:27:32 to 5:27:48( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: where you had fewer insurgents we'd seen like a fourfold increase in the number of insurgents holding fort in iraq, if we had a democratic administration in afghanistan that was starting to slip away from

5:27:48 to 5:28:03( Edit History Discussion )

John Warner: us and we're seeing the kind of massive increase in drug production, raising enough poppies in afghanistan today to meet the demands of the whole rest of the world, not just the united states' heroin

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John Warner: addiction, but the whole rest of the world. i would just say to my friends on the other side, if the effort were being as mismanaged as badly by a democratic administration, i bet you we'd be having

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John Warner: this debate in september of 2006 if the shoe were on the other foot. this is a reasonable debate to have. i say that as one who has voted for most of this administration's nominees that had to be confirmed

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John Warner: here, who has tried to help a bunch of my old colleagues, including secretaries thomson and ridge and levitt and whitman to put together their teams and to help govern this country. every now and then

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John Warner: the time comes to change course. we know what we're doing is not working, and one of the keys to changing course frankly is to changing leadership. secretary rumsfeld to his credit in response to earlier

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John Warner: criticism actually i'm told came to the president. he offered to resign. and the president to his credit, being loyal to his team, declined that offer by his secretary. live that to be true. --

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John Warner: i believe that to be true. i would just say, mr. president, if secretary rumsfeld feels compelled to submit his resignation to you again, accept it. it's time to turn the page. it's not the time to turn

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John Warner: our back on iraq. it's not the time to turn our back certainly on the men and women who are serving there for us on behalf of the iraqi people today, but it's time to change course. it's time to

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Ted Stevens: change the leadership. and that begins with the civilian leadership of the department of defense. i yield back my time. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: the senate is

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Speech By: Ted Stevens