as opposed to what isn't
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.
How about "Sorry the truth offends you."
Rove should apologize for not comparing the left to Nazis
It is what it is. Too bad, libs. Rove did nothing wrong by stating the obvious.
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Remember sKerry's "GLOBAL TEST"?
Look at what they want to do in G'itmo! And they are saying that Rove is insulting the Dims? He is just saying the truth! The prisoners there were the ones attacking us after 9/11. Oh, wait. New York. Sorry. Only from the city where it is OK for kids to send hate mail to our Troops.
Schumer 1 202 224-6542
I don't remember hearing Schumer or any other RAT decrying the comments made by Durbin that defamed our Military. Durbin needs to resign.
Now that's an apology every Republican could honestly offer to all the Dembats.
NY Times below the fold tomorrow. This will be the top story in the MSM for the next 2 weeks.
Rove's apology should be at least as fair as Turban Durbin's.
Karl- a little something extra in this month's check would be appreciated!
Do I really need a sarc tag?
``liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.''
Well, they did. Therapy was widely offered, at state expense, to counter the emotional effects of 9/11. And does anyone remember John Kerry saying during the campaign that he would like to indict Bin Laden in a New York court? Howard Dean also complained that UBL had not been tried and should not be presumed guilty. BTW, Bin Laden would have financial resources to pay for his defense that would have dwarfed those of O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson. Bin Laden would walk in a U.S. court. It would not be hard to find a juror or two in which you could conjure reasonable doubt.
Again, what Rove said is empirically true. Whine on, Chuck Schumer, whine on.
Attaboy Karl!
YES!!!!!......and the sooner the better for everyone.
I'd go on a 5 minute rant about Chappaquiddik. Wonder if it would be played on the nightly news.
They know who they are.
Democrat party died a long time ago.
They have usurped the mantle.
Finslly. Some hardball from the WH.
LOL!
Karl Rove for GOP Chairman!
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(I understand Chuckie Schemer is preparing indictments and offering him therapy...)
Rove should retract the ending line.
...and then just keep going on about how weak the Dems are on the war on terror etc.
I can't believe this is not from the Onion. What a bunch of hypocrits. First we have Durbin who is unapologetic for condeming the military as a bunch of Nazi's then we have them screaming bloody murder after Rove tells the truth! Amazing!
The truth requires no defense.
This would also make a GREAT T-shirt!
Heads up, "Those Shirts"!!!
Jack.
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