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President George W. Bush denounced some critics of the Iraq war as irresponsible on Tuesday and called for an election-year debate that "brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries." In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Bush made clear he was girding for battle with Democrats in the run-up to the mid-term congressional election in November, when he will try to keep the U.S. Congress in the hands of his Republican Party. "There is a difference between responsible and irresponsible debate and it's even more important to conduct this debate responsibly when American troops are...

Gen. Pace Criticizes Sen. Murtha Remark By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer 17 minutes ago A Democratic congressman's remarks about the military are damaging to troop morale and the Army's efforts to rebound from a recruiting slump, the nation's top general said Thursday. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked at a Pentagon news conference to comment on remarks by Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), D-Pa., a Marine Corps veteran who has become a leading voice in Congress advocating an early withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Murtha told ABC News this week...

Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan today agreed that the American Civil Liberties Union has been irresponsible in its comments about the president and that Democrats are appeasing the left-wing legal group vis-à-vis the Patriot Act. WND pointed out in today's White House briefing that the ACLU ran a full-page ad in the New York Times criticizing President Bush over warrantless wiretapping, claiming he "lied to the American people and broke the law." "The ACLU – this is one of the special interest groups that Democrats in the Senate are trying to appease because they want to weaken and undermine the...

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...

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 and...

DeLay: Carter Comments Part of Dangerous Pattern; Dem Leaders' Rhetoric Undermining Troops, War on Terror 4/9/2004 12:13:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Stuart Roy or Jonathan Grella, 202-225-4000, both of the Office of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay SUGAR LAND, Texas., April 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today questioned controversial statements made yesterday by former President Jimmy Carter about the war on terror. "I'm just glad President Carter wasn't in charge after Valley Forge, Bull Run, or Pearl Harbor." "Unfortunately, this is becoming a dangerous pattern," DeLay said. "Democrat leaders continue to undermine...

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...