Nervous Kerry to Dems: "Go Easy on Rumsfeld"; Repsonse: "Why are you trying to F**K me on this?"

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[crushkerry]

John Kerry burned the midnight oil on the phone with Democrat members of the Senate Armed Services Committee last night. He pleaded with them to go lightly on Donald Rumsfeld when the Secretary of Defense appears before them today at around noon. Rumsfeld is scheduled to answer their questions about allegations of abuse by US soldiers against Iraqi prisoners and the ensuing investigation.

The photos of those alleged cases of abuse have enraged the Arab world. And Democrat bigs on the Armed Services Committee have called for Rumsfled’s head.

But according to our source inside the Kerry campaign, John Kerry badly wants the issue to go away. Kerry fears the longer the issue stays in the news, the greater the likelihood his controversial accusations of war crimes committed by US soldiers in Vietnam – including his own – will become an ancillary issue in the campaign for President. “The 9-11 Commission is already going to discredit Bush in their report. If we push things too far, there is bound to be a backlash,” our source told us. “Tonight’s cable news talk shows were proof. Virtually every one of them ran footage of John Kerry in 1971 trashing his fellow veterans and admitting atrocities.”

Our source told us that the Democrat Senate Caucus had originally planned to “rake Rumsfeld over the coals” at today’s hearing, but that Kerry wanted them to tone it down. Kerry had heated phone conversations with at least two key Democrats on the Armed Services Committee, demanding to know of one, “Why are you trying to f—k me on this?”

No word yet on whether Kerry was successful in persuading his fellow Democrats to go easy on Rumsfeld or not. I guess we’ll just have to stay tuned to the hearings.

[handy]

from Conservativegreatgrandma
This is the way it should be. These Americans trying to keep us safe in Iraq have done nothing in comparison to what Horseface Kerry claims to have done in Viet Nam.

Great Grandma. Wow. Congrats! :-) Kerry's has a dilemma. On the one hand he has admitted to committing atrocities while in the navy much worse than the recent pictures from the prison. On the other hand he delayed reporting these atrocities to his commanders. It was not until he was out of the navy, 8 months after he left Vietnam, that he publicly spoke of what he did & saw in Vietnam. To top if off, now he says he embellished the reports of atrocities because he was “young” when he said those things in 1971.

So, how can Kerry criticize the ARMY & Rummy? The ARMY , began an investigation before the story became public. Kerry waited several months to ever say anything.

Rummy did not personally commit the prisoner abuse, Kerry is on record under oath before congress IIRC saying he personally committed atrocities.

It does not surprise me that Kerry wants this story to go away. It reminds everyone what he said he did over there, & what he said when he got back. He wants the voters to focus on his “heroism” in action, not the fact he says he killed innocents. He wants the stuff he said & did when he got back to just go away.

[Semper Paratus]

I doubt that the Committee will go EASY on the SecDef. It is NOT their job

Pity the 'rats. The economy is gone as an issue so now all that got is to but heads with Rummy.

[handy]

If Congress and the Arab world were enraged by the photos of prisoners... perhaps we should be showing more photos of the events of 9-11 and the dozens of other Arab Muslim acts of horror... Why should the American public be "protected" from THOSE photos...

AMEN! Worth repeating!

[wayoverontheright]

Interesting that a source privy to the phone calls would blab.

That's because this is the leaked cover story for the real phone conversation, which probably went something like this:

"If you don't nail his nuts to the wall on this, I will do everything in my power to cause your political life, as you currently know it, to flat line, and there will be no attempts to resuscitate."

[RottiBiz]

I agree. I'm sick and tired of this "fair and balanced" stuff, too.

Just give us the news -- straight reporting.

Yesterday, Cavuto (who I love) had Sheila Jackson Lee on his show!

If anyone is going to cause me to stop watching Fox, it's people like her (and Eleanor Clift, etc.) spewing the left's lies. She didn't even make sense!

Kept talking about "Bush's clock" and demanding Rummy resign.

Why would Neil give this dolt air time? I can only hope he does it for the same reason Rush does...to let the audience see for themselves how utterly stupid these liberals are.

[maica]

Why do they hate us, because they hate themselves

%%%

This applies to leftists as well.

[crushkerry]

The source did not say, so we don't know.

[river rat]

Amen...
But alas, impossible to achieve a media focused on UNBIASED TRUTH..
The media is diseased to it's marrow...
The beast must first be destroyed and burned...
Perhaps then, something of value and truth can arise from the ashes...

Semper Fi

[crushkerry]

I don't know if you're missing anything. This is just what our source told us. Our info is only as good as his or her info. And remember, Kerry is probably the only Democrat better off solely because of the subject matter, so it's a unique situation.

[motzman]

Protecting America good
Language unbecoming a Presidential candidate bad

[Mia T]

Kerry's Belated Condemnation Focuses on Process
Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content

[Delphinium]

He is trying to talk them out of their favorite sport.

They are like wolves, only much worse.

[petercooper]

time?

[Cold Heat]

Kept talking about "Bush's clock" and demanding Rummy resign.

I wanted to clock HER!

Murdock is going to start another channel. He has not eliminated another news and info channel and I hope he puts one up that is as one sided as the general media bias is, except on our side.

Let FOX continue to try to reach the so called middle.

[Mo1]

The source did not say, so we don't know.

I believe she is on the committe ... so there is a pretty good chance it was her

[Barlowmaker]

Should be interesting TV viewing.

Undoubtedly. Levin, Kennedy, Byrd and the single most stupid and psychotic Senator of all time: Minnesota's Mark Dayton. Wait'll you see this guy stammering, stuttering and twisting his face into contortions.

Rummy has a target rich environment.

[Petronski]

Maybe the partisan Dems are giving the Kerry people a preview of what they are going to report, regardless of what the evidence shows.

Maybe the partisan Dems had to agree in advance to produce an anti-Bush result just to get appointed at all.

[kcvl]

"For the benefit of the United States, for our country, I believe Mr. Rumsfeld has to resign," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

Said Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, "Mr. Rumsfeld has been engaged in a coverup from the start on this issue and continues to be so." And Rep. Charlie Rangel took it a step further, saying, "If the president doesn't fire the secretary, if he doesn't resign, I think it's the responsibility of this Congress to file articles of impeachment and force him to leave office."

[maica]

Do not presume that Murdock is a conservative. He is a businessman who recognized the lack of media outlets which would appeal to a conservative audience, and decided that it would be profitable to support some conservative perspective.