Edward Kennedy Troop Quotations

Instead of providing open and honest answers about how we will achieve success in Iraq and allow our troops to begin to come home, ... the president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never should have fought.

Our troops deserve better, Mr. Secretary. I think the American people deserve better, ... They deserve competency, and they deserve the facts. In baseball, it's three strikes and you're out. What is it for the secretary of defense?

Even today, the administration submitted a report to Congress on troop training that again failed to set out a plan,

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.