It’s a little harder to pull off the posturing blowhard act when the guys who run the “Gulag” are staring you in the eye.
Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave visiting home-state senators a piece of their mind last week.
Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, met with several soldiers during a visit led by Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John W. Warner, Virginia Republican.
Pentagon officials said soldiers criticized the harsh comments made recently by Senate Democrats. Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, last month invoked widespread military outrage when he compared Guantanamo to the prison labor systems used by communist tyrant Josef Stalin, Cambodia’s Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler.
“They got stiff reactions from those home-state soldiers,” one official told us. “The troops down there expressed their disdain for that kind of commentary, especially comparisons to the gulag.”
Via Instapundit who links to other items that indicate that the military is more than a little fed up with the rhetoric. Austin Bay, too.
Arab American wife of Ted Kennedy stumps for Kerry
Arab American News ^ | 10-23-04 | M. Kay Siblani
DETROIT – Talk about pulling out the big guns. This week Senator Ted Kennedy’s Arab American wife materialized, supporting her and her husband’s friend John Kerry for President. Ted Kennedy has an Arab American wife? Who knew?
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Includes pic of Mrs. Kennedy.
Kennedy’s children become her guardians By Glen Johnson, Globe Staff | February 25, 2005 Joan Bennett Kennedy’s three children sought and were granted legal control of her day-to-day affairs last spring amid her continued struggle with alcoholism, the office of her youngest son, US Representative Patrick Kennedy, revealed yesterday…
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Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
Dear late Ann Landers,
Ted Kennedy is giving free advice to Americans re someone else’s wife.He says Roberts’s wife is off bounds. What is your opinion, Ann?
P.S. What is your URL?
SDA
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Ted Kennedy: Roberts’ Wife Off Bounds
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NewsMax ^ | 7/24/05 | Staff
Some pro-abortion groups are fretting about the pro-life activities of Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts. But no less a pro-abortion liberal than Senator Ted Kennedy told reporters this week that Jane Roberts’ anti-abortion work “ought to be out of bounds.” According to the New York Times, some pro-lifers think her activities provide a clear signal that she’s in their camp, while pro-abortionists fear that this is indeed the case. With such a strongly pro-life wife, some are suggesting that Judge Roberts not only shares her views but also would act on them to seek to…