Charles Kennedy Quotes
If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.
Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). HMSO, 18 Mar. 2003.
Webb’s opponent had accused him of not being patriotic because he opposed many of President George W. Bush’s Iraq War policies. This technique of publicly intimating that an opponent was not patriotic because he opposed the hawkish proposals of the President, had worked very well for the Republicans before. Presidential Candidate John Kerry, a decorated war hero, was attacked and remarkably Senator Max Cleland who had lost three of his four limbs in battle was unseated by attacking his patriotism. When Senator George Allen, fighting for reelection, used the technique on Webb, Web responded much more aggressively than earlier Democrats had when faced with the accusation. Senator Allen, like most of the patriotism critics of heroic veterans, had never been in combat.
Charles Peter Kennedy was a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2015.
