Daschle lashes out at Bush for 'failed' diplomacy

Cnn.com ^ | March, 17, 2003 | cnn.com

[MIgramma]

I think someone should take out a full-page ad in S.D.s biggest newspaper quoting this tirade and thanking the dear people for "gifting" us with this marvelous man.

[tutstar]

o. that's low!but not as low as what Daschle said ....so it's ok

[Mark]

Dammit! I KNEW that there was a 4th Dipsy Chick!

[MonroeDNA]

There he goes again.

[fiftymegaton]

Somebody shoot this monkey. Daschle is an idiot. What did he do to help the diplomacy effort???? NOTHING!!

[KriegerGeist]

Are we hearing what they call the "death rattle" coming from Senator Dasshole?

Should we call a priest to administer the last rights?

[Spruce]

It wouldn't take much tar, and but a small amount of feathers to cover his wee body.

[Servant of the Nine]

Bush replies, "Why's he yelling at my knees?"

So9

[Yankee]

Intercourse Daschle!!!

[PhilipFreneau]

Daschle is a world-class hypocrite. The Washington Times report of September 16, 2002 explains:

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, who has been saying that Mr. Bush has yet to make a convincing case for military action at this time, asks, "What has changed in recent months or years" to go to war against Iraq now?

But in 1998, Mr. Daschle was beating the war drums in the Senate and co-sponsoring a war resolution that urged Mr. Clinton "to take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."

That resolution was co-sponsored by some Democrats who are now voicing criticisms or at least doubts about Mr. Bush's war plans, including Sens. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and John Kerry of Massachusetts. In defense of the resolution, Mr. Daschle said it would "send as clear a message as possible that we are going to force, one way or another, diplomatically or militarily, Iraq to comply with their own agreements and with international law."

Explaining the Clinton administration's arguments for military action at that time, Mr. Daschle said at a news conference on Feb. 11, 1998, "Look, we have exhausted virtually all our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that, what other option is there but to force them to do so? That's what they're saying. This is the key question. And the answer is we don't have another option. We have got to force them to comply militarily."

Mr. Daschle now says that Mr. Bush "strengthened his case" in his Thursday address to the United Nations, but he remains dubious about much of Mr. Bush's plans for war against Iraq. "What will be the reaction of the international community? What will be the degree of support within the United Nations? We're not prepared to make any commitment until we've had more of an opportunity to answer these questions," he told reporters Thursday.

"Matters looked different in 1998, when Democrats were working with a president of their own party," writes Stephen Hayes in the Weekly Standard magazine, which dug up some of the statements made by Mr. Daschle and other Senate Democrats at the time Mr. Clinton was contemplating military action against Iraq.

[jwalsh07]

About what can be expected from the leader of Le Partie Democratique'?

[gitmo]

Put all these losers on a suicide watch.

Don't stop them. Just watch.

[Enemy Of The State]

""failed so miserably" at diplomacy in the crisis with Iraq "

Sorry Ba$tard Daschole, not everyone can kiss Koffee Anus's butt like you would!

[stayathomemom]

"It seems to be a Democratic talking point"
I saw someone on the Today show last week talking about Bush's terrible diplomacy. I don't remember who it was, but I think it was some journalist. I thought at that time that this was going to be the new tack that the opposition would take. It is all you hear now.

[Yankee]

So, what else is new?

If he's not "saddened", then he's "concerned" or "troubled" yadda, yadda, yadda.

He's a carping intellectual and physical midget.

And they want to know why liberal talk radio doesn't work.

Who's going to listen to that sissy-ass, whiny bullcrap for 3 hours?

[river rat]

I LOVE IT!

The Democrat Party has finally been driven from cover!

They are now exposed for all to see just WHAT they really have been for decades..

Obstructionists, America Bashers, Racists, Rabble Rousers, Leftists, Communists, Criminals, Liars, Election "fixers" and just plain assholes.....

Dasshole is the BEST of the Breed for that Party...
He has no SHAME, NO INTEGRITY, NO HONESTY and yet, he leads their party in the SENATE! Their party is the ENEMY.....

Anyone that could vote the Democrat ticket -- is not a liberal.... They are mentally ill or a criminal...

Semper Fi

[FryingPan101]

" I think this is the absolute worst statement made by the leader of an opposing party in the United States during wartime in the past 120 years."

You're absolutely right. This is a disgraceful human being.

[Ann Archy]

Memo to any Democrats that may be reading this: Your fellow Democrats want the US to LOSE the War!! LOSE....BE DEFEATED!! POSSIBLY BOMBED TO SMITHERINES!!! GASSED!!! D E A D... You Democrats need to tell your leaders that you want to WIN! You want to live in freedom...so do OTHER people of the world. You continue to vote for traitorous people who HATE the US.

[Rocky]

Get a rope.

[pfflier]

Very supportive of Dashole (and Conyers) on the eve of war.

In the past, even the most vocal of critics knew when to shut up.

We need to start a campaign now, that remembers this treacherous scum the Democrats are so proud of.