Posted on 10/08/2004 7:54:01 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
In recent days, attention has been focused on some remarks I've made about Iraq. The coverage of these remarks has elicited far more heat than light, so I believe it's important to put my remarks in the correct context.
In my speeches, I have said that the United States paid a price for not stopping the looting in Iraq in the immediate aftermath of major combat operations and that we did not have enough troops on the ground to accomplish that task. The press and critics of the war have seized on these remarks in an effort to undermine President Bush's Iraq policy.
This effort won't succeed. Let me explain why.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Actually, title should be "What I Really Said in Iraq"
After Bremer came back from Iraq, he just should have rented a cabin up in the mountains somewhere until the election was over with.....
Thank-you. Let's see if that makes the headlines.
The democrats did the same with David Kay and Richard Clarke's words. They simply omit the words that conflict with their argument.
Too late, Bremer...the rats will never quote your retraction/correction...
New York Times? Hmmm... well, at least maybe the Democrats will get to read it.
Did it taker Bremer that long to make a statement, or that long for the Slimes to print it? Too little too late, in either case.
pop pop... pop!
He had to have known Kerry would take his original comments and use them to attack Bush. Now he has exposed Kerry for the fraud and liar he is, and used the fracas to give Bush a ringing endorsement that would not otherwise have obtained the coverage it has.
Bremer's complete statement is very good. It supports Bush, and criticizes Kerry for using his comments out of context.
I think this example is as strong evidence of MSM medacity as the forged Killian memos. Although I congratulate the Times for carrying this statement, they practically had to. However, they buried it in the Op-Ed page. I wonder if they also featured it on the front page?
I am planning to send the full item to all my correspondents who need to know how the news is managed.
Bremer thought he was speaking to a private group. He was stupid and naive. He should have realized that the Dems would inevitably send a spy in to record what he said, and that they would spin and twist it for their own purposes.
Too late now. It's the usual corrupt leftist propaganda spin. Two or three days of big headlines bashing Bush, and then a buried retraction, if that, on the obscure bottom of a page in the back sections. These days they don't even bother with a token retraction.
Face it, Kerry is going to lie like a dog tonight. It's all he's got. Unless Charlie Gibson calls him on it, he will get away with it too.
Republicans will never catch on to this, the dems have been doing this with the MSM for decades, and the Republicans are too dense to get it.
"It's all he's got."
I disagree, he's got a GREAT chance of winning because of it.
Who calls him or any other dem on these lies? Cheney was the only one in the last 10 years. Clinton won two elections are these lies.
Ronald Reagan was the only Republican President who wouldn't stand and get beat up like a pinata by the MSM and dems.
This President is the worse at getting beat up with lies and doing absolutely nothing about it, it's been going on for years. And the rest of the RINOS hide under their crib like a bunch of girlie-men. These lies are extremely effective if the are not immediately answered.
BUSH could call him on it.
I don't know why he'd hold back now - he damn well better not be worried about appearing 'presidential' at this point. Kerry has been out there literally calling Bush a liar all week.
The press has been curiously reluctant to report my constant public support for the president's strategy in Iraq and his policies to fight terrorism. I have been involved in the war on terrorism for two decades, and in my view no world leader has better understood the stakes in this global war than President Bush. The president was right when he concluded that Saddam Hussein was a menace who needed to be removed from power. He understands that our enemies are not confined to Al Qaeda, and certainly not just to Osama bin Laden, who is probably trapped in his hide-out in Afghanistan. As the bipartisan 9/11 commission reported, there were contacts between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime going back a decade. We will win the war against global terror only by staying on the offensive and confronting terrorists and state sponsors of terror - wherever they are. Right now, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Qaeda ally, is a dangerous threat. He is in Iraq.
President Bush has said that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror. He is right. Mr. Zarqawi's stated goal is to kill Americans, set off a sectarian war in Iraq and defeat democracy there. He is our enemy. ....
Mr. Kerry is free to quote my comments about Iraq. But for the sake of honesty he should also point out that I have repeatedly said, including in all my speeches in recent weeks, that President Bush made a correct and courageous decision to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein's brutality, and that the president is correct to see the war in Iraq as a central front in the war on terrorism.
As posted...the lame MSM will not address this...he simply should have said nothing at all.
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