Maurice Hinchey: “recently Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts took the floor of the other body and made the observation that the…”

“recently Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts took the floor of the other body and made the observation that the stated reasons of the President for going to war in Iraq were a fraud, that the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terrorism and certainly nothing to do with the specific attack on the United States of September 11. Rather, his observation was that the President's reasons for going to war in Iraq were political, and partisan political reasons at that. Senator Kennedy's observations were correct and courageous. Since September 11, for almost 2 years, the President has inferred that there was a direct relationship between the attack on the United States by the al Qaeda network of September 11, 2001, and the Government of Iraq; that there was a direct connection between those two. Just recently the President had to admit that there was no evidence whatsoever associating either Saddam Hussein or the Government of Iraq in any way with the attack on our country of September 11. The President has alleged that the other reason for going to war in Iraq was that Iraq possessed substantial so-called weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological weapons.”