"During an appearance on the Ed Schultz Show today, Senate Armed Forces Committee member Ted Kennedy (D-MA) will say that it was "news" to Congressional members that US troops are "restricted by the Iraqis,""
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""I was startled to find out that our servicemen and women in cleaning out Baghdad have been restricted by the Iraqis," Kennedy says, "and about where they can go, the battles that they can fight."
Schultz asks the senator if retiring CENTCOM Commander General John Abizaid had ever told Congress.
"No, but we've heard that now from the national security adviser," Kennedy says. "Mr. Bartlett said that yesterday on CNN and this is all news to us.""
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