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Zell Miller: Finger-pointing, Apologies Over Prisoner Treatment Only Boost Enemy"I Refuse to Join In National Act of Contrition'WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today delivered the following statement on the floor of the United States Senate addressing the situation at the Abu Ghraib prison. “Mr. President, here we go again, here we go again. Rushing to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Pushing and pulling and shoving and leaping over one another to assign blame and point the finger at America the Terrible. Lining up in long lines at the microphones to offer apologies to those poor,...

It has come to this. In discussing Iraq, the Abu Ghraib abuses and the beheading of Nick Berg, Katie Couric summarized the situation in this way: "It seems like it's become of question of who is the lesser of two evils." That's right. Katie Couric wondered aloud who might be more evil - Al Qaeda, which, in addition to beheading Nick Berg, murdered 3,000 innocent people on 9/11, or the United States of America. And please don't imagine for a second that Matthews came to the defense of the US. When Katie asked Matthews for his reaction to the statement...

Sometimes a rainbow is reflected in a drop of rain — and sometimes it's just a muddy mess. The episode at Abu Ghraib certainly revealed the depravity of a few American military personnel. But the reaction to it has revealed character, as well.   On the muddy mess front, there is, of course, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who seems to have finally toppled over the deep end. He took to the Senate floor to pronounce that, "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management." That is a breathtakingly vicious thing to say. It's...

Nevada Senator John Ensign blasted Democrat Ted Kennedy for his "shameful" statements likening US soldiers to Saddam Hussein's torturous regime. The Nevada Republican was commenting on a statement credited to Senator Kennedy Tuesday. Kennedy is quoted as saying, "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management." Ensign believes Kennedy crossed the line with his comments and called on Kennedy to retract them immediately. "To express disappointment or anger over what has occurred at Abu Ghraib prison is one thing. To put American servicemen and women in the same category as one of the most...

Ted Kennedy, today, on the Senate floor: On March 19th, 2004, President Bush asked "Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open?" Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management....U.S. management.

<p>A key House Democrat said yesterday the way President Bush is pursuing the war in Iraq makes it "unwinnable," drawing a stern rebuke from Republicans who said Democrats essentially declared victory for terrorists.</p> <p>"The direction's got to be changed or it's unwinnable, in my estimation," said Rep. John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a Vietnam veteran and the widely respected top Democrat on the military subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Mr. Murtha said the United States must either commit tens of thousands more troops and spend the money to supply and retrain them, or pull out of Iraq.</p>

Arlington, VA -- "Yesterday, Teresa Heinz Kerry called the Vice President of the United States 'unpatriotic.' This political line of attack is offensive and should be stopped. The Vice President has served his country for over thirty years, as Chief of Staff to a President, as a Congressman and as Secretary of Defense. "Every time the discussion focuses on John Kerry's Senate record of voting against weapons systems, voting against support for troops in the field or his positions on both sides of critical questions of national security, his campaign falsely claims that his patriotism is being attacked. John Kerry's...

The Democrats love to use this term to describe Republicans who did not serve in Viet Nam, but who support the Iraq war. I will repeat the usual objections to this offensive tactic. If we always picked the person with the most impressive military record, Bob Dole would have been President and Bill Clinton would still be somewhere in Arkansas. Also, I think criminals should be caught, fires should be put out, and that military action is sometimes necessary. Is my opinion of less value because I am not a policeman, fireman, or soldier? Also, does the idea that we...

On the official Kerry for President blog, supporters laud Sen. Richard Durbin for comparing the Bush campaign to communist snipers in Vietnam: "Over 35 years ago, John Kerry faced his enemies in Vietnam. There were enemies there who were involved in sniper fire against John Kerry, trying to take his life and kill him because he wore the uniform of the United States of America. Sadly, the Vietnam snipers are still trying to cause damage to John Kerry. The new Vietnam snipers come from the Bush-Cheney campaign...." If that's not enough, there's the responses. First up: "My senator from Illinois,...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Tossing a verbal egg at Dick Cheney's military record, Sen. Frank Lautenberg blasted the vice president Wednesday as the "lead chickenhawk," who squawks about John Kerry's Vietnam War record despite never serving himself.</p> <p>"The chickenhawk has no idea what it means to have the courage to put your life at risk to defend this nation," Lautenberg said on the Senate floor. "But they are quick to disparage those who did sacrifice."</p>

In remarks being reported throughout the Arab world Tuesday morning, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton blasted the Bush administration as a threat to peace in the Middle East, going so far as to accuse the President Bush of endangering the lives of U.S. troops. Sen. Clinton delivered the unprecedented attack in an interview with the London-based Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Monday, with newspapers from Tehran to Islamabad picking up her harsh words almost immediately. Typical was the coverage by Tehran's news agency Mehr, which quoted Clinton as saying that "the U.S. is trapped in the quagmire of Iraq." "Referring...

If come November we are still fighting the fanatics in Iraq, you can thank John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. Both of these liberals know there is satellite television throughout the Middle East, and the terrorists can see that this is a close election. Both count on the terrorists’ attempt to tilt the election to Kerry. So what do these two do? Both of these unpatriotic liberals come out day after day bashing our President while he is trying to wage war, saying this is another Vietnam, and constantly claiming we have no support for this war. That’s right; I called...

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats urged President George W. Bush on Thursday to acknowledge his mistakes that they said have brought Iraq to the brink of disaster, and said he could begin by seeking greater role for U.S. allies. In separate speeches, several Democrats said Bush must change course to prevent Iraq from becoming a quagmire that spreads violence throughout the Middle East and drains U.S. lives and resources for years to come. "I fear the administration is far more worried about conceding mistakes than it is concerned about sticking to a failed policy," said Joseph Biden of...

Just when I think the Democrats have descended as deep as possible into the slime pit where they customarily wallow, they manage to sink even deeper as they have during these farcical hearings into the 9/11 tragedy where the Democrat members of that panel are trying to pin the blame for the terrorist attacks that day on President Bush. As just about anybody with two cents worth of common sense knows, given the circumstances prior to September 11, 2001, nobody – nobody at all, could have prevented the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That, however, has...

The liberals who cried 'didn't do enough!' April 14, 2004 The Bush-bashers who have relentlessly accused the president and his War on Terror team of acting like jack-booted bigots are now imperiously attacking them for acting like light-footed fumblers. This self-serving display of liberal hypocrisy has provided more idiotic entertainment than "The Nick & Jessica Variety Hour." In an editorial this week that embodies the Left's unmitigated gall, the New York Times castigated President Bush for not doing enough after receiving an Aug. 6, 2001, briefing memo warning vaguely of bin Laden-planned domestic terrorism. According to the Times, Bush should...

Where does one draw the line between legitimate political criticism and defeatism during time of war? If there is a line, it is blurring rapidly. Criticism of the Bush administration has reached a fever pitch – no criticism is too unfair, no accusation too vague, no innuendo too outrageous. And anyone who attempts to straighten the record is automatically attacked as a "right-wing partisan" – as if Bush were the embodiment of the "right wing." You'd certainly get an argument about that from the right wing, who think Bush is too far to the left. Some of the attacks are...

BROWNSVILLE -- Former President Carter on Thursday called the Bush administration's decision to wage war against Iraq "ill-advised and unnecessary," adding the resulting campaign "has turned out to be a tragedy." The former Democratic president also said Bush's environmental policies are perhaps the worst in the nation's history. Carter made the comments at the Rio R.V. Park after wrapping up a four-day birding trip with his wife, Rosalynn, in the lower Rio Grande Valley. "President Bush's war was ill-advised and unnecessary and based on erroneous statements, and has turned out to be a tragedy," Carter said. "And my prayer has...

Maryland congressman,Elijah Cummings, has just stated on WCBM radio, that Condoleza Rice and George Bush had warnings that 9/11 was about to happen and did nothing.

Sen. George Allen, R-Va., blasted his colleague Sen. Ted Kennedy on Wednesday for calling the Iraq war "George Bush's Vietnam," saying that the outburst was worse than Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi in 1972. "I think it's even worse than Hanoi Jane," Allen told radio host Laura Ingraham, who had compared Kennedy's comments to visits to North Vietnam by Fonda and Ramsey Clark during the height of the war. Allen explained that while Fonda was just an actress, Kennedy is an elected U.S. official whose name is known worldwide. "It's harmful to our troops, it's harmful to our efforts...