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Byline: Stephen J. Hedges
WASHINGTON _ Sen. Edward Kennedy and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt raised objections Friday to different aspects of President Bush's campaign for a U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq, joining a growing list of Democrats who have publicly taken on the president in recent days.
"War should be a last resort, not the first response," Kennedy said in a speech to the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies. Citing the Cuban missile crisis defused by his brother, former President John F. Kennedy, the senator called on Bush to disclose the "cost in blood and treasure" of going to war with Iraq.
Kennedy, D-Mass., also called on Bush to first give the United Nations an opportunity to enforce its measures against Hussein. "It is inevitable that a war in Iraq without serious international support will weaken our effort to ensure that Al Qaeda terrorists can never, never, never threaten American lives…
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