Posted on 06/23/2005 8:53:47 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Democrats are demanding that White House adviser Karl Rove immediately retract and apologize for comments that liberals responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes by wanting to ``prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.''
``The one thing New York has had since Sept. 11 is unity,'' said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. ``To inject politics into this and to defame a large number of people'' is outrageous, he said. ``It's not what New York and America is all about.''
Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, said in a speech Wednesday that ``liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.'' Conservatives, he said in the speech to the New York state Conservative Party just a few miles north of Ground Zero, ``saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.''
Rove said the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for ``moderation and restraint'' after the terrorist attacks.
Schumer said Democrats were drafting a letter asking Rove to retract his remarks. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also called on President Bush to ``immediately repudiate Karl Rove's offensive and outrageous comments.''
Rove also denounced Sen. Dick Durbin's comments comparing interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to the methods of Nazis and other repressive regimes. He said the statements have been broadcast throughout the Middle East, putting U.S. troops in greater danger. The Illinois Democrat has since apologized for the remarks.
``No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals,'' Rove said.
Late to thread but "Bite me " comes to mind.
I don't ever want the Republican's to lose an election because the voters weren't fully aware of what the democrat party is. I don't want people voting in Socialism with Communist leanings= the real democrat party of today, because they didn't know that's what they got when they voted for them ( democrats as opposed to Republican's -excluding RINO's of course, who are a separate problem- Socialists-lite posing as Republicans).
As for 9/11- I learned all I ever need to know about the democrat party on that day and the day's that followed. They were an absolute disgrace. I can't remember all that they did, but, it started within hours of the planes hitting the buildings.
I recall they attacked president Bush for openers- when nobody knew exactly what had happened. They tried to add panic to an already frightening situation. They worried about our enemies and Gitmo way back then, while the wreckage was still smoldering and bodies were still being recovered.
I seem to recall they were whispering threats NOT to fund Afghanistan missions, but then backed off.
Traitor Ted Kennedy went on the floor of the Senate and talked about the "quagmire" in Afghanistan, and troops coming home in thousands upon thousands of body bags. Senators praised Osama Bin Laden for his health care programs.
Michael Moore, who made a propaganda film trashing our military, was given a seat of honor next to former president Carter at the dem convention, and on and on.
Somebody should go back and get all the audio and visual clips of what the dems said and did , from minutes after the WTC attacks to now. As I noted- it will tell you all you need to know about them. Basically they were willing to kick our country when it was down.
That to me- is why they should never again be given political power. There should be 2 political parties, but, the other party does NOT have to be the democrat party. They should be relegated to the same place that the Socialist, Communist, and Pacifist parties occupy.
I have a single question: Name one thing the democrat party has done to help support the United States of America in the War on Terror since 9/11?
I don't ever want the Republican's to lose an election because the voters weren't fully aware of what the democrat party is. I don't want people voting in Socialism with Communist leanings= the real democrat party of today, because they didn't know that's what they got when they voted for them ( democrats as opposed to Republican's -excluding RINO's of course, who are a separate problem- Socialists-lite posing as Republicans).
As for 9/11- I learned all I ever need to know about the democrat party on that day and the day's that followed. They were an absolute disgrace. I can't remember all that they did, but, it started within hours of the planes hitting the buildings.
I recall they attacked president Bush for openers- when nobody knew exactly what had happened. They tried to add panic to an already frightening situation. They worried about our enemies and Gitmo way back then, while the wreckage was still smoldering and bodies were still being recovered.
I seem to recall they were whispering threats NOT to fund Afghanistan missions, but then backed off.
Traitor Ted Kennedy went on the floor of the Senate and talked about the "quagmire" in Afghanistan, and troops coming home in thousands upon thousands of body bags. Senators praised Osama Bin Laden for his health care programs.
Michael Moore, who made a propaganda film trashing our military, was given a seat of honor next to former president Carter at the dem convention, and on and on.
Somebody should go back and get all the audio and visual clips of what the dems said and did , from minutes after the WTC attacks to now. As I noted- it will tell you all you need to know about them. Basically they were willing to kick our country when it was down.
That to me- is why they should never again be given political power. There should be 2 political parties, but, the other party does NOT have to be the democrat party. They should be relegated to the same place that the Socialist, Communist, and Pacifist parties occupy.
I have a single question: Name one thing the democrat party has done to help support the United States of America in the War on Terror since 9/11?
Yes I sure notice that, but what I really suspect is that it has always been that way and I am just now figuring it out.
It's not the Democrats it's the liberals.
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