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As much as I hate to admit that Teddy Kennedy has ever done anything right, I have to give em this one. Teddy Kennedy voted NO on the Iraq war. That in of itself wouldn't have been enough for me to make this admission. It was his reasoning that was prescient. To paraphrase he said two things. One that while Iraq is a danger in general it isn't an immediate danger that we need to go to war over. That the administration didn't present a strong enough intelligence that would prove it to be an immediate danger. Two that the Administrations post-war planning was inadequate to the challenges that it faced.

Secondly Teddy Kennedy is in a unique position of power in the Senate and with the electorate in his home state. A Senator of lesser stature? would have been hard pressed to express such a contrarian point of view. Another Senator would have had to risk a great deal more to make a stand on principle at a time of such emotion.