...which is what appeared in the article, the full text of the speech can be found on Kennedy's Senate webpage, here.
If anyone doubts that this is what he said, he or she can listen to it, along with the Q&A session that followed, at Johns Hopkins's SAIS home page, here. Currently, it's on the front page, but in about a week, probably, it will be bumped to the archive. There's a search box to the right; the date of the speech is January 27, 2005.
Anyone who chooses to listen can decide for him- or herself how drunk Sen. Kennedy was. His speech doesn't sound slurred nor his mind unfocused to me. I suppose it's easier to ignore someone's words if one claims that he is corrupted by addiction, Ed. It spares one of any further thought on the subject.
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- Kennedy outlines how the Democrats would handle Iraq.