Video: Ted Koppel talks sense on Iraq

Ted Koppel was on Meet the Press over the weekend and had some very lucid things to say about the War on Terror and Iraq. I agree with Mr. Koppel 100%. I don’t think he could be any more correct in his statements. And I think he’s telling a message that really needs to be heard in this country – particularly in Congress.

Koppel: If you look back at the elements of the war against terrorism, that war was going on, and has been going on for the past 24 years. We just didn’t connect the dots. 24 years ago, the precursors of Hezbollah blew up the U.S. marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. That was 1983, 241 Americans killed. In the interim between then and now you had two attacks on the World Trade Center, you had the blowing up of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, you had the attempt to blow up the U.S.S. Cole, you had the bombing of the two U.S. embassies in East Africa. This war’s already been going on for 24 years; we were just a little bit slow to recognize it.

Here’s the link to the video at Hotair.