Posted on 05/10/2004 4:45:24 PM PDT by mrustow
In his latest election-year stunt to undermine the Bush administration -- and our national resolve to finish the job in Iraq -- John Kerry has launched a petition calling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Kerry claims that Secretary Rumsfeld should be held personally responsible for the actions of a few soldiers in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison who humiliated a group of the captive terrorists in their search for "actionable intelligence." This is the same John F. Kerry, by the way, who has alternately employed claims of his Vietnam wartime heroism and wartime criminality to catapult himself into the highest echelons of public life over the past three decades. Kerry’s irrational call for Rumsfeld’s resignation, harkening back to his days as a Vietnam War protestor, is anything but out of the ordinary for the "gentleman from Massachusetts." His campaign claims that petition has received about 250,000 signatures. Act now to refute this political folly and support Secretary Rumsfeld.
BTTT
124,131!
Bumpbackatcha!
I guess thats about all were gona get.
As far as I know, whatever petition Kerry gets up is of zero effect. Rumsfeld's job status is between him and his employer, Pres. Bush.
The last few days, it's going up at the rate of about 1,000 per day, whereas the first day it was several thousand per hour. Of course, the first 24 hours, I was working much harder at pushing it, pinging to every thread with humorous ads in oversized type. The law of diminshed returns has clearly set in. However, I'm also mystified as to why none of the bloggers and commentary Web sites I notified about the petition posted it. Possible explanations include: 1. Bad blood between the editors and the folks at The Federalist (never underestimate the power of pettiness in human affairs); 2. A readiness to sacrifice Rummy, whether out of perceived expedience, thinking it will save Bush, or because they like to see the great man brought low; or 3. Because they hold the Kerry petition in contempt, and refuse to so much as acknowledge its existence.
Oops -- that's 125,412.
I hope you're right. In any event, the New York Times is more of a threat to Rummy than the Kerry petition.
125,493!
bump
Stop making sense! Don't you realize that New Conservatism means unquestioning devotion to politicians, not principles?
Bumpbackatcha!
126,559!
done and forwarded.
Thanks!
128,222!
128,437!
128,496!
Done! Go Rummy!
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