"Dear Friend" e-mail received from the loser John Kerry (Regarding Karl Rove)

E-mail from John Kerry ^ | Received 6.24.2005 | Kerry's Staff

[JustTheTruth]

Dear Friend,

Just hours after learning about an outrageous speech delivered by Karl Rove, President Bush's most senior advisor, I went to the Senate floor -- and I spoke from my heart. I want to share those words with you -- not as a Democrat or Republican, not as a liberal or conservative -- but as an American.

I've attached part of my speech to the end of this email. But, before you read what I said, look again at what Karl Rove said:

Perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. I hope you will join me right now in signing an open letter to the President urging him to thoroughly reject Karl Rove's purposeful attack on the patriotism of those who dare ask the tough questions that best protect American troops. Sign our open letter to President Bush now:

http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php

This isn't the first time that Karl Rove and other White House officials have sought to divide America in ways that make it harder to keep our country safe and our democracy strong. But, it should be the last. That's why I ended my speech with a call on President Bush to fire Karl Rove. It is the only way the President can make it clear that he rejects Rove's effort to distort one of the most unified and patriotic moments in American history into a cheap, divisive, political applause line.

That, of course, is what is most outrageous about Karl Rove's claim that President Bush's political opponents offered "therapy and understanding for our attackers." It isn't true. In the days after 9/11, there were no Democrats, no Republicans. We were all Americans, standing together. President Bush acknowledged that unity in a clear and compelling way at the time.

Now, Karl Rove is purposely twisting those days of unity in order to divide us for political gain. I hope you will act right now to join a growing chorus of Americans calling on the President to fire Karl Rove.

http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php

Please act right now. Sign our open letter to the President and pass it on to others. All Americans have to speak with one powerful voice in response to this outrage. I will continue speaking out and I know I can count on you to stand with me.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make America Safe, Not Divided Excerpts of remarks by Senator John Kerry on the Senate floor on Thursday, June 23. "None of us here will ever forget the hours after September 11... and the remarkable response of the American people as we came together as one to answer the attack on our homeland.... [I]t brought out the best of all of us in America.

That spirit of our country should never be reduced to a cheap, divisive political applause line from anyone who speaks for the President of the United States.

I am proud, as my colleagues on this side are, that after September 11, all of the people of this country rallied to President Bush's call for unity to meet the danger. There were no Democrats, there were no Republicans, there were only Americans. That is why it is really hard to believe that last night in New York... the most senior adviser to the President of the United States [was] purposely twisting those days of unity in order to divide us for political gain.

Rather than focusing attention on Osama bin Laden and finding him or rather than focusing attention on just smashing al-Qaida and uniting our effort, as we have been, he is, instead, challenging the patriotism of every American who is every bit as committed to fighting terror as is he.

Just days after 9/11, the Senate voted 98 to nothing, and the House voted 420 to 1, to authorize President Bush to use all necessary and appropriate force against terror. And after the bipartisan vote, President Bush said: "I'm gratified that the Congress has united so powerfully by taking this action. It sends a clear message. Our people are together and we will prevail."

That is not the message that was sent by Karl Rove in New York City last night. Last night, he said: "No more needs to be said about" their "motives."

I think a lot more needs to be said about Karl Rove's motives because they are not the people's motives... They are not the motives of a nation that found unity in that critical moment--Democrat and Republican alike, all of us as Americans.

If the President really believes his own words, if those words have meaning, he should at the very least expect a public apology from Karl Rove. And frankly, he ought to fire him. If the President of the United States knows the meaning of those words, then he ought to listen to the plea of Kristen Breitweiser, who lost her husband when the Twin Towers came crashing down. She said: "If you are going to use 9/11, use it to make this nation safer than it was on 9/11."

Karl Rove doesn't owe me an apology and he doesn't owe Democrats an apology. He owes the country an apology. He owes Kristen Breitweiser and a lot of people like her, those families, an apology. He owes an apology to every one of those families who paid the ultimate price on 9/11 and expect their government to be doing all possible to keep the unity of their country and to fight an effective war on terror.

The fact is, millions of Americans...are asking Washington for honesty, for results, and for leadership--not for political division. Before Karl Rove delivers another political assault, he ought to stop and think about those families and the unity of 9/11.

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Dear President Bush,

In the days following the 9/11 attacks, you movingly spoke of the unity of purpose emanating all across America. Now, Karl Rove, your top political aide, wants us to believe that you weren't telling the truth -- that Americans were offering "therapy and understanding to the attackers." You cannot remain silent as your most senior advisor purposely twists the truth about a great moment of American unity for political gain.

It isn't the first time Karl Rove has crossed the line. It needs to be the last. I call on you to thoroughly reject his cheap, divisive efforts to challenge the patriotism of your political opponents. It's time to fire Karl Rove.

Sincerely,

Your name here

[JustTheTruth]

Usual John Kerry B.S. - warmed over attack on Karl Rove.

[martin_fierro]

Just hours after learning about an outrageous speech delivered by Karl Rove, President Bush's most senior advisor, I went to the Senate floor

The real news here is that Kerry actually showed up for work.

[guitarist]

Mehlman and the pubbies (fellow white Christians) put out a list of liberal quotes lining up with Rove's charge. He CAN'T apologize for telling the truth!

[zencat]

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and OFFER THERAPY AND UNDERSTANDING FOR OUR ATTACKERS.

Sheesh. Is this thing real? Sounds like it was written by Rove himself.

[Fresh Wind]

Guess who said this: "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."

[TheForceOfOne]

I hear the doofus Jerk Kerry is now a 40:1 shot in 2008. So hasn't he become even more irrelevant than he was before?

I think he would have more success by going back to picking up rich old alcoholic hags at ski lodges.

[labette]

I just signed the petition for Osama, anyone care to do Saddam?
Be sure to show your anger, i.e. "off with the infidel's head", you get the drift.

[SmithL]

[My2Cents]

Hey, Kerry...

[joshhiggins]

I went to his link and encouraged him to keep up the good work, and not to rest until every American knows that George (Hitler) Bush stole the election. http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php

[anniegetyourgun]

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

[My2Cents]

My new tagline.

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh sure, make me do all the work......

; )

[freespirited]

Actually, a fine example of what Rove was talking about can be found in Kerry's own 1971 anti-war testimony. He manages to blame the entire county for what Lt. Calley did in Vietnam--with special blame to the makers of fighting man comic books. Here is the quote--he is answering Sen. Pell about the Calley case.

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Mr. Kerry: My feeling, Senator, on Lieutenant Calley is what he did quite obviously was a horrible, horrible, horrible thing and I have no bone to pick with the fact that he was prosecuted. But I think that in this question you have to separate guilt from responsibility, and I think clearly the responsibility for what has happened there lies elsewhere.

I think it lies with the men who designed free fire zones. I think it lies with the men who encourage body counts. I think it lies in large part with this country, which allows a young child before he reaches the age of 14 to see 12,500 deaths on television, which glorifies the John Wayne syndrome, which puts out fighting man comic books on the stands, which allows us in training to do calisthenics to four counts, on the fourth count of which we stand up and shout "kill" in unison, which has posters in barracks in this country with a crucified Vietnamese, blood on him, and underneath it says "kill the gook," and I think that clearly the responsibility for all of this is what has produced this horrible aberration.

Now, I think if you are going to try Lieutenant Calley then you must at the same time, if this country is going to demand respect for the law, you must at the same time try all those other people who have responsibility, and any aversion that we may have to the verdict as veterans is not to say that Calley should be freed, not to say that he is innocent, but to say that you can't just take him alone, and that would be my response to that.

Senator Pell: I agree with you. The guilt is shared by many, many, many of us, including the leaders of the get-out-now school. But in this regard if we had not tried him, I think we would be much more criticized and should be criticized. I would think the same fate would probably befall him as befell either Sergeant or Lieutenant Schwarz of West Virginia who was tried for life for the same offense and is out on a 9 months commuted sentence. By the same token I would hope the quality of mercy would be exercised in this regard for a young man who was not equipped for the job and ran amuck. But I think public opinion should think this through. We who have taken this position find ourselves very much in the minority.

Mr. Kerry: I understand that, Senator, but I think it is a very difficult thing for the public to think through faced with the facts. The fact that 18 other people indicted for the very same crime were freed and the fact among those were general and colonels. I mean this simply is not justice. That is all. It is just not justice.

[ncountylee]

No BARF alert?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Tell it to your terrorist buddies Hanoi Boi. Americans don't want to hear it.

[msvicki]

I went to his link and told him Karl Rove spoke the truth, that any person with an 'nth degree of intelligence is aware of the Lying Socialist Democrats hatred for the military, their desire to see the United States defeated in this war, their disdain for our fighting men and women. They delight in the fact that following Dick Durbin's press release to Al Jazeera, United States women soldiers were murdered by the Lying Socialist Democrats friends - the insurgents. GO MILITARY! Damn the LSD's. John Kerry is a traitor - by the way he "served" in
Viet Nam.

[John Jorsett]

As some of the bloggers are noting, the Democrats are now in the position of having to argue that they're pro-Iraq-war. A bit of deft Rove jiujitsu, that.

[shteebo]

When the liberals hear their own positions stated back to them it sounds so ridiculous they demand an apology. Unbelievable. If Rove anticipated this silly reaction from Kerry, Shumer, Hillary, et al, he really is a genius. He's actually got them loudly arguing against their own soundbites.

[hermgem]

Since Kerry finally revealed his four Harvard D's, I kind of feel sorry for him.