Kennedy: "final nail in the coffin for President Bush's phony argument..."

[dajoki]

Politics & Government
Posted on Sun, Sep. 24, 2006

Intelligence findings present political obstacle for Republicans
By Ron Hutcheson

McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15599775.htm
(MCT)

WASHINGTON - A newly disclosed intelligence assessment that contradicts President Bush's claim that the war in Iraq has made America safer also casts doubt on the Republican campaign strategy for the November elections.

Democrats seized on the intelligence findings Sunday to challenge Republican assertions that Bush and his congressional allies offer the best protection against terrorists. The assessment, the consensus opinion of the entire federal intelligence network, concluded that the Iraq war has fueled Islamic extremism and contributed to the spread of terror cells.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a prepared statement that the intelligence analysis "should be the final nail in the coffin for President Bush's phony argument about the Iraq war."

"Despite what President Bush says," Kennedy said, "the intelligence community has reported the plain truth - the misguided war in Iraq has metastasized and spread terrorism like cancer around the world."

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said the analysis is "further proof that the war in Iraq is making it harder for America to fight and win the war on terror." She said Bush "should read the intelligence carefully before giving another misleading speech about progress in the war on terrorism."

White House officials declined to discuss...

[jaxx]

1. Without the Iraq good news gw has nothing left.

Maybe he'll quit.

[Parisle]

2. The "final nail" metaphor is a good one, if they keep hammering.

---- Every democrat in the country needs to address this and speak forcefully about it and about nothing else for the next entire week. That is simply a bleak, but pragmatic assessment of America's powers of recognition and comprehension. This is fairly major news, and it hits the Bush cabal right where they live. So it has to be pounded and pounded,... the tenor of the argument needs to go beyond the standard debate....

---- "Impeachment? Ladies and gentlemen, impeachment is a scant remedy to the criminality and national danger represented in this administration. If there were a way to recall or remove this administration overnight, then that would not be excessive."

---- A democrat needs to say THAT. Every democrat needs to be saying that.