McDermott in Hot Water for Saddam Quip

News Day ^ | 12/15/03 | Matthew Daly

[Keli Kilohana]

McDermott has Demagogicratic Dementia!

[Keli Kilohana]

"SADDAM'S CAPTURED WAS TIMED"
Some of the Demagogicrats says something's the matter!
The timing of Saddam's capture was "designed to flatter."
I know that claim cannot be true.
Just think about it, you know it too!
If true, Saddam would have been the turkey on that platter!

[leadpenny]

Also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1041028/posts

Rep. McDermott in hot water for Saddam quip [Left Wing Idiot Comments...]
PennLive.COM ^

[jagrmeister]

It's really stunning to see how delusional the Left has become during their banishment from power. It's getting harder by the day for reasonable people to support Democrats.

[Young Rhino]

Someone could make a fortune in Boston next summer selling tinfoil hat protective gear to these Dimwits at their convention.

[Simcha7]

This is nothing less than DEMON-RAT IDIOCY!!!

Keep it up Democrat Jerky Boys...You Are Going to LOOSE BIG TIME in 2004 and 2008 and also in 2012!!!

COUNT ON IT!

[ppaul]

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BAGHDAD JIM

TRAITOR!

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BAGHDAD JIM

TRAITOR!

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[Beck_isright]

"Someone could make a fortune in Boston next summer selling tinfoil hat protective gear to these Dimwits at their convention."

This convention will make Ringling Brothers envious. Can you imagine the protests from all the fringe nuts in Boston next year?

[Fledermaus]

You think they are nuts now? At the rate it's going, after 2004 they'll be strapping bombs on themselves (or pages) and blowing up Starbucks stores.

[Dallas59]

I agree.

[Wondervixen]

Baghdad Jimmy seems to want to run his alligator mouth...HE MET Saddam on his trips over there. If he's so on top of things, why didn't he just tell Hussein "I'm placing you under Congressman's arrest. Get on the plane. You're coming back to Washington with me."

Oh! That's right! It's because he's a TWEETY BIRD ASS!

[RobFromGa]

McDermott in Hot Water for Saddam Quip

By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press Writer

December 15, 2003, 9:07 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who earned headlines across the globe last year for criticizing President Bush while in Baghdad, is enmeshed in a new controversy over remarks he made about the capture of Saddam Hussein.

In an interview Monday with a Seattle radio station, McDermott said the U.S. military could have found the former Iraqi dictator "a long time ago if they wanted."

Asked if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said, "Yeah. Oh, yeah."

McDermott went on to say, "There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing."

When interviewer Dave Ross asked again if he meant to imply the Bush administration timed the capture for political reasons, McDermott said: "I don't know that it was definitely planned on this weekend, but I know they've been in contact with people all along who knew basically where he was. It was just a matter of time till they'd find him.

"It's funny," McDermott added, "when they're having all this trouble, suddenly they have to roll out something."

State Republicans immediately condemned McDermott's remarks, saying the Seattle Democrat again was engaging in "crazy talk" about the Iraq war.

"Once again McDermott has embarrassed this state with his irresponsible ranting," GOP state Chairman Chris Vance said in a news release. "Calling on him to apologize is useless, but I call on other Democrats to let the public know if they agree with McDermott -- and Howard Dean, who recently said he thought it was possible that President Bush had advance knowledge about 9/11. The voters deserve to know if the entire Democratic Party believes in these sorts of bitter, paranoid conspiracy theories."

Last year, Vance and other Republicans labeled McDermott "Baghdad Jim" for comments he made during a trip to Baghdad that President Bush "would mislead the American people" but that Saddam could be trusted.

On Monday, Democrats joined the criticism of McDermott.

"With all due respect to my colleague, that is a fantasy," Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said of McDermott's comments. "That just is not right. ... It's one thing to criticize this administration for having done this war. I mean, that's a fair question. But to criticize them on the capture of Saddam, when it's such a big thing to our troops, is just ridiculous."

McDermott, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press, called the timing of Saddam's capture suspicious but said he was not alleging it had been intentionally delayed.

"Everything was going wrong, and they got a real Christmas gift, if you will, in that the troops did a magnificent job and found" Saddam, he said.

[jaykay]

For a politician who somehow managed to get himself elected, McDermott has lousy political instincts. If the President had Saddam on the shelf waiting to be produced for maximum advantage, why now, almost a year away from the election, with the American public's notoriously short attention span and "what have you done for me lately" attitude. Why not save the Saddam in the hole for late summer or early fall of '04?

[Tall_Texan]

He exists to make Patty Murray (D-Osama) seem moderate by comparison.

[Laverne]

According to MSNBC this morning, these comments are "the beginning of the political fallout for BUSH" over the capture of Saddam; thats how I heard it anyway. Amazing.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The democrat party timed the release of information about George W. Bush's DUI conviction (some thirty years prior) to coincide with the 2000 election. It almost worked.

The democrat party, with the help of the LA Times, timed the release of information about Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged groping of women (some ten to twenty years prior) to coincide with the California runoff election. It probably backfired.

What political event did the capture of Saddam coincide with? The pre-Christmas sale at Macy's? If they found the rat in his hole on Nov. 1, 2004, there might be a shred of credibility in this rant. But, December 14, 2003? Bush doesn't even have a primary to worry about.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I guess right after the Marlins beat the Yankees in the World Series, their manager, Jack McKeon, had to deal with the political fallout related to the victory. How come it took 6 games--why didn't you sweep them in 4 straight? And you only won the last game 2-0. Why aren't your guys hitting?

[bullseye1911]

McDermott Is simply the face of the average DU'er, why the suprise?

[monocle]

I view his comments as more of a slap at the military than at Bush. McDermott implies that the military had the intelligence and waited to act. If that is so, in McDermott's mind, then the whole command up to the Pentagon were in a massive political conspiracy.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"This convention will make Ringling Brothers envious."

Particularly becaue they don't have a bearded lady for the side show like the DemocRATS do.

Regards,

[skinkinthegrass]

Particularly becaue they don't have a bearded lady for the side show like the DemocRATS do.

...Like Shillary?? :))