Debate needed

The Chicago Tribune offers some video and transcripts of Ted Kennedy's speech calling for a true debate before any additional troops are sent to Iraq.

Dan Kennedy's Media Nation rightfully questioned the vocabulary of a "surge". Kennedy's calling for more than that.



Watch it. It's just two minutes, but it's invaluable in showing how far our country has strayed from the idea of a robust democracy that we even need to talk about this.

"The president's speech must be the beginning, not the end, of a new national discussion of our policy in Iraq. Congress must have a genuine debate over the wisdom of the president's plan. Let us here the arguments for it and the arguments against it, then let us vote on it in the light of day."