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Senator Kennedy and the War in Iraq
February 4, 2005
Edward M. Kennedy senator, D-MA
Jack Wilson president, UMass system
Keith Motley interim chancellor, UMass Boston

Edward M. Kennedy tells an audience of 400 people at the University of Massachusetts, Boston that the US must begin to demonstrate to the Iraqi people that the military mission is one of liberation, not occupation. Kennedy has avidly opposed the Bush administration's policy on the war in Iraq since September 2002, when the administration began planning to go to war. He has been a staunch advocate of pulling troops of out Iraq. Kennedy argues that US actions have only served to reinforce the perception among Iraqis that the US does not intend to relinquish its control of the country. Those perceptions will only restrain the development of democratic institutions in the beleaguered nation, he claims.

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