Kennedy leads Democratic onslaught on Bush

Senator Edward Kennedy and other Democrats assailed President George Bush’s decision to go to war with Iraq today and declared they would oppose Condoleezza Rice’s nomination as Secretary of State as a principal architect of a failed policy.

Kennedy keyed the Democratic attack in the Senate with charges that Rice, as Bush’s national security adviser, provided Congress with “false reasons” for going to war. Had she not, he said in a speech, “it might have changed the course of history.”