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.
This terminally clueless traitor will go down in history as the dumbest dumb-as-a-rock person ever to be voted into public office. He still believes that the premise behind his words is rational and valid. His non-apology bears this out by his carefully chosen words.
The clearest test of the absurdity of his charges is this:
If wholesale genocide occurs again, and tens of millions of innocents are killed by a few totally evil persons, are we likely to hear from him, "This is a horrible event comparable to the events at GITMO?"
Stupid is as stupid thinks...
As with the Durbin outrage, posters, Talk Radio, blobbers ought to overwhelm the Dem Senators at their offices with emails showing their chutzpah, hypocrisy and downright anti-military responses. To allow Hil, Schumer, Leahy, Biden the glory before the media in denouncing Rove is self defeating. Go on the offensive and blast them.
To the Demobats:
It you SOBs turn to do a little repudiating,apologizing and resigning your positions, starting with KKK Byrd, Conspiracy Kook Klinton, and name calling Reid, Schumer, Biden, Kennedy, Waters, for starters.
Rove forgot to mention they also prepared for surrender.
Another apology;
"I'm sorry that the liberals were jumping over each other voting to send the troops in to Iraq, then began 24/7 media campaign to undermine them".
Time to quit pussy footing around!!
Faux outrage from a faux human being.
Something happened in the fall of 2001 in New York, that seemed pretty bad at the time, and maybe a couple of other incidents, but really, is that any reason to GO TO WAR over it? Or so goes the reasoning. Democrats, and a lot of other people, have gone into a state of collective amnesia, and it is time to put up the videotapes of the two planes flying into each of the two towers, as well as the apocalyptic nature of the aftermath of these attacks and the attack on the very bastion of our military command center, the Pentagon.
There is no room for moderation.
Rove: "I'm sorry you feel the need to demand an apology."
Hey, its working for Turbin Durbin!
"It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't."
Twain
I see the MSM is trying to quell the DURBIN DUSTUP by CHANGING the SUBJECT...
Really... No one even claims to be a liberal these days... They're either a "progressive" or a "moderate"...
That was a night show host wasn't it?
He dug himself in deeper by saying that "dropping bombs from 50,000 feet takes no courage at all".
Tell that to the residents of the Hanoi Hilton who never made it back.
Cool. This'll help get the statement out there, where more people will see it, reflect on it, and realize the inherent truth behind it.
Sadly, I recall all too well.
LOL!
This is the best the rats can come up with to try to deflect attention from "distubin' Durbin"?
Pathetic.... Rove should elaborate and expand on his comments.
Dear Dems...stick it.
spelling corrected
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