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White House Defends Rove 9/11 Remarks After Dems Demand Apology
AP ^ | June 23, 2005 | Bryce Mursch

Posted on 06/23/2005 11:07:26 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

The White House is rejecting Democratic demands that Karl Rove apologize for saying liberals meekly offered "therapy" for the terrorists as a response to 9/11.

Press Secretary Scott McClellan says President Bush's top political adviser was just "telling it like it is." Rove delivered his blast a few miles from Ground Zero in New York, at a Conservative Party dinner, he said liberals sought "understanding" for the attack and Democrats called for "moderation and restraint" while President Bush saw it for what it was: a declaration of war.

McClellan says Rove wasn't getting personal, just describing different philosophies.

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean calls Rove's remarks "divisive and damaging." Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says Rove should apologize, or resign.

At a Senate hearing on Iraq, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called on military leaders to "immediately repudiate" what she called "an insulting comment."


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; bush; crymeariver; democrat; ineedawaaaahmbulance; liberalism; partofwhiners; rove; rovianempire; truth; truthhurtsdontit; waronterror
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To: gopwinsin04

Excellent!


141 posted on 06/23/2005 1:06:01 PM PDT by No Blue States
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To: cyncooper
This from one who dared to stand in the Senate waving around the New York Post with the headline "Bush Knew" shrieking "Bush KNEW?! Bush knew WHAT?"

I was on vacation in Europe at that time, that photo op got hugh play in their left wing media, seriesly.

142 posted on 06/23/2005 1:06:51 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: KC Burke
"additionally Kerry was quoted as saying that much of our response to terrorism should be as a criminal matter."

And that "the threat of terrorism has been overrated", and that military action in Iraq is "the wrong war at the wrong time". What else? That our objectives have never been defined and that we have no exit strategy - which mantra has been taken up by Biden - and of course that he voted for the $86 million before he voted against it. And I THINK he mentioned that he's a Viet Nam veteran once....

...Remember all those VFW members turning their backs on him when he went to schlock his spiel before men who never turned traitor to their country? Another priceless moment.

143 posted on 06/23/2005 1:07:18 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: hellinahandcart

I think that one might've been photoshopped.

He looks like he's holding a phone.


144 posted on 06/23/2005 1:07:36 PM PDT by sauropod (De gustibus non est disputandum)
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To: Josh in PA
Right on target. I'm old enough to remember an era when most Democrat politicians still supported America more than they supported America's enemies, but clearly the landscape has shifted. I also remember a time when most Democrats supported freedom over Communism, and not the other way around. Nowadays, given a blind test, it's pretty hard to tell whether any given press release was written by the Democrat leadership or by the leadership of North Korea, Iran, or Cuba.

The Democrat leadership should be standing up for what they believe in, waving their hammer-and-sickle flags proudly, and not pretending that they're offended whenever someone of Rove's stature points out the obvious...

145 posted on 06/23/2005 1:08:47 PM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: America's Resolve
THEN we'll see what 'extraordinary circumstances' really means.

Then we'll see what NUCLEAR OPTION means, LOL, hopefully.

146 posted on 06/23/2005 1:10:13 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: West Coast Conservative
Matt just drudged up the beaut on the left:

Is it my imagination, or do all aging female moonbats look like seahags after a while?

147 posted on 06/23/2005 1:10:24 PM PDT by Milhous
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To: beans36
The guy is f'ing brilliant.

ROTFL, I concur

148 posted on 06/23/2005 1:11:40 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: cake_crumb

By Kenneth R. Timmerman
© 2004 Insight/News World Communications Inc.

The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration.

In a sweeping foreign-policy address to the Council on Foreign Relations in December, Kerry called the U.S. war on terror as conceived and led by President Bush "the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in modern history."

Kerry's remarks were widely praised by journalists. The Associated Press headlined its report on his speech, "Kerry Vows to Repair Foreign Relations." The Knight Ridder news service noted that the new focus on foreign policy "plays to Kerry's strength." None of the major U.S. dailies found Kerry's unusually strident language at all inappropriate.


149 posted on 06/23/2005 1:11:50 PM PDT by listenhillary (Socialists have only killed 100 million. We'll never learn will we?)
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To: sauropod

I don't think so, dear. It was an AP photo that I grabbed off of Yahoo Images.


150 posted on 06/23/2005 1:12:19 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: defconw

Contrast the reactions to 9/11 by the most recognizable faces of the two major parties. President Bush recognized the perpetrators as "evil-doers” and vowed to hunt them down.

Former President Bill Clinton focused his ire upon this country – the victim of the 9/11 attacks!

"Those of us who come from various European lineages are not blameless,” Clinton intoned at Georgetown University two months after the attacks. Citing the Crusades and other alleged crimes of Western civilization, Clinton – at the same time that he condemned the attacks – seemed to provide a rationalization for the terrorists’ actions.


151 posted on 06/23/2005 1:14:30 PM PDT by listenhillary (Socialists have only killed 100 million. We'll never learn will we?)
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To: listenhillary

Very good points! Thank God Clinton was not President on 9/11!


152 posted on 06/23/2005 1:15:41 PM PDT by defconw (GEORGE ALLEN IN 08)
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To: Mister Baredog
The guy is f'ing brilliant.

ROTFL, I concur


Amen. Mad genius Rove made moonbats bark like trained seals barking for food.
153 posted on 06/23/2005 1:16:00 PM PDT by Milhous
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To: West Coast Conservative
Press Secretary Scott McClellan says President Bush's top political adviser was just "telling it like it is."

Good for McClellan. I like that guy!

Let's roll a few videotapes showing Dims saying exactly the sort of thing Rove was talking about, and watch them squirm.

Hannity is starting the process by quoting some out-of-this world statements from Dennis Kucinich re Afghanistan --demanding "peace now!" (And he made those statements only a couple of months after 9/11/2001.)

154 posted on 06/23/2005 1:18:11 PM PDT by gingersnaps
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To: West Coast Conservative

Hey Democrats. I got your apology right here: ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›


155 posted on 06/23/2005 1:18:28 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Milhous
Amen. Mad genius Rove made moonbats bark like trained seals barking for food.

Don't they realize he said "liberals"?

Don't they realize what they're confirming by their reactions?

The party of Michael Moore seems to have a glass jaw, ROTFLMPJO.

156 posted on 06/23/2005 1:19:41 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: All

Kerry is on the floor of the Senate demanding that Rove apologize! Is he the stupidest man in America or what?


157 posted on 06/23/2005 1:20:38 PM PDT by defconw (GEORGE ALLEN IN 08)
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To: America's Resolve
"Now use your name to go to the next step. If they're PROGRESSIVE, then anyone who doesn't agree with them is ... "

A NaziFascistCapitalisttNeoconBushbot!

158 posted on 06/23/2005 1:21:00 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: ken5050
Isn't that politicizing the military?

Yes...

...for a Republican.

159 posted on 06/23/2005 1:23:10 PM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: silverleaf

Do you have the original version of that pic?


160 posted on 06/23/2005 1:25:04 PM PDT by montag813
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