Kennedy: Bush Broke Faith with Americans on Iraq By Vicki Allen, Reuters

[Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts] said the administration ”has broken faith with the American people, aided and abetted by a congressional majority willing to pursue ideology at any price, even the price of distorting the truth.”

He also said the Iraq war has made the effort to stop terrorism more difficult. ”We knocked al Qaeda down in the war in Afghanistan, but we let it regroup by going to war in Iraq,” he said of Osama bin Laden’s network, blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. …

“War in Iraq was a war of choice, not a war of necessity. It was a product they were methodically rolling out,” he said.

Kennedy branded the administration as “breathtakingly arrogant,” convinced “they know what is in America’s interest, but they refuse to debate it honestly.”