Kerry's Response to tonight's Bush Press Conf disaster. (excellent)

[Tellurian]

Kerry Statement on President's News Conference


To: National Desk

Contact: Stephanie Cutter of John Kerry for President, 202-712-3000

WASHINGTON, April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senator John Kerry issued the following statement tonight in response to the President's news conference:

"Tonight, the President had the opportunity to tell the American people what steps he was going to take to stabilize the situation in Iraq. Unfortunately, he offered no specific plan whatsoever. Rather, the President made it clear that he intends to stubbornly cling to the same policy that has led to a greater risk to American troops and a steadily higher cost to the American taxpayer.

"We need to set a new course in Iraq. We need to internationalize the effort and put an end to the American occupation. We need to open up the reconstruction of Iraq to other countries. We need a real transfer of political power to the UN.

"The President may refuse to acknowledge a single mistake in the course of his presidency, but with deaths mounting and American sacrifice increasing, it's time he offered a specific plan that secures real international involvement, gets the target off the backs of our troops, and starts to share the burden in Iraq."

http://www.usnewswire.com/

[xultar]

1. NIZE! n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Xultar - I love the little girl and her bunny rabbit........

SOOOOOoooooo cute :^)

[Tellurian]

8. xultar...

adorable avatar...<g>

[xultar]

10. Thanks Y'ALL! n/t

[Tellurian]

2. Gee, a succinct statesman like response--

Platform Plank:

hammer, nail, head!

[Seldona]

3. I forgot who said this,

but it goes something like 'Why spend your energy murdering your opponent when he is commiting suicide?'.

And right now, *Bush is in some serious trouble.

Could not happen to a more deserving guy.

[ezee]

4. one more knot in the noose n/t

[Tellurian]

5. I'm particularly fond of the "get a rope" euphemism..

Although, in this case, he's been given enough rope and the inevitable has happened.

[calimary]

7. Chris Matthews tonight actually put it to his knuckle-dragger panel -

about how - when you're in a hole, shouldn't you stop digging? Naturally they all demurred on that one. But I'm glad he's asking.

GLAD Kerry is finally weighing in. Although somebody on some panel (on MSNBC) pointed out that Kerry hasn't had to do much. The news is more or less doing the job on bush for him.

[Tellurian]

9. Look at this post from Grytpype in BN..

Panel Says Bush Saw Repeated Warnings (MUST READ!!!)

MUST READ THE WHOLE THING, here are the first four grafs:


By Dana Priest

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, April 14, 2004; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9642-2004Apr13.html

By the time a CIA briefer gave President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief headlined "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," the president had seen a stream of alarming reports on al Qaeda's intentions. So had Vice President Cheney and Bush's top national security team, according to newly declassified information released yesterday by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

In April and May 2001, for example, the intelligence community headlined some of those reports, "Bin Laden planning multiple operations," "Bin Laden network's plans advancing" and "Bin Laden threats are real."

The intelligence included reports of a hostage plot against Americans. It noted that operatives might choose to hijack an aircraft or storm a U.S. embassy. Without knowing when, where or how the terrorists would strike, the CIA "consistently described the upcoming attacks as occurring on a catastrophic level, indicating that they would cause the world to be in turmoil," {and still they did nothing!} according to one of two staff reports released by the panel yesterday.

"Reports similar to these were made available to President Bush in the morning meetings with Tenet," the commission staff said.

[buycitgo]

11. was it the BEST when he said Fund was SMIRKING, and also

brought up his being part of the PROPAGANDA machine?

don't know if he used machine, but he DID for sure say smirk and propaganda

couldn't believe it!

fab

you

luss

[Hippo_Tron]

12. Here's a better response...

Bush, you're a fucking moron.