Name: Jessica From: About me: “'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.'
'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,” said the Cat, 'or you wouldn’t have come here.'”
-Lewis Carroll
"We lost our national bearings in Vietnam. We ignored the truth. We failed our ideals," he said. "We cannot allow that history to repeat itself in Iraq."
Kennedy warned that Iraqis and people all over the world are losing respect for America because of the United States' inability "to provide security and other basic services" to the Iraqi people.
He briefly discussed the future of Social Security, calling Bush's recent proposal to partially privatize the system a plan "that doesn't do anything about the problem."