The White House Attack Dogs are At It Again: Kerry Responds to Mehlman
Ron just posted an article from Glen Johnson of AP News, that was a run down of the rebuttal by Kerry (see full rebuttal to Cheney here) to a speech delivered by Cheney (see Cheney's speech here) earlier today.
John Kerry also responded to the latest Republican personal attacks issued by White House Attack Dog of the Day - RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman:
It certainly does appear there is a lot of barking coming from the Republican camp of late, as support for the war in Iraq has dwindled considerably and more and more calls to get out of Iraq are bing issued.
Anyone got any doggie bones for the White House Attack Dogs to grind their teeth on?
John Kerry also responded to the latest Republican personal attacks issued by White House Attack Dog of the Day - RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman:
“This continues to be the say one thing, then do another Administration. If the President is sincere about wanting an honest and open debate on Iraq, he would call off his attack dogs and engage in that debate. Instead, they continue to hide their mistakes behind smokescreens of fear and smear. One minute the White House acknowledges they were out of line attacking Jack Murtha, then they impugn the character of other Democrats.
“Our troops, our country, and the Congress are still waiting to hear the President’s plan for Iraq, but instead we just end up with more misleading and more political attacks. America needs better, and our troops need leadership from a Commander in Chief - not division from a Campaigner in Chief.”
It certainly does appear there is a lot of barking coming from the Republican camp of late, as support for the war in Iraq has dwindled considerably and more and more calls to get out of Iraq are bing issued.
Anyone got any doggie bones for the White House Attack Dogs to grind their teeth on?
posted by Pamela J. Leavey at 12:21 AM
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Bush plotted to bomb al-Jazeera: report
Tue Nov 22, 1:35 AM ET
US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret".
The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that Blair talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station, unnamed sources told the daily which is against the war in Iraq.
The transcript of the pair's talks during Blair's April 16, 2004 visit to Washington allegedly shows Bush wanted to attack the satellite channel's headquarters.
Blair allegedly feared such a strike, in the business district of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a key western ally in the Persian Gulf, would spark revenge attacks.
The Mirror quoted an unnamed British government official as saying Bush's threat was "humorous, not serious".
Al-Jazeera's perspectives on the war in Iraq have drawn criticism from Washington since the US-led March 2003 invasion.
The station has broadcast messages from Al-Qaeda terror network chief Osama bin Laden and the beheadings of Western hostages by insurgents in Iraq, as well as footage of dead coalition servicemen and Iraqi civilians killed in fighting.
A source told the Mirror: "The memo is explosive and hugely damaging to Bush.
"He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere. Blair replied that would cause a big problem.
"There's no doubt what Bush wanted to do -- and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it."
Another source said: "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men."
A spokesman for Blair's Downing Street office said: "We have got nothing to say about this story. We don't comment on leaked documents."
The Mirror said the memo turned up in the office of then British lawmaker Tony Clarke, a member of Blair's Labour Party, in May 2004.
Civil servant David Keogh, 49, is accused under the Official Secrets Act of handing it to Clarke's former researcher Leo O'Connor, 42. Both are bailed to appear at Bow Street Magistrates Court in central London next week.
Clarke returned the memo to Downing Street. He said O'Connor had behaved "pefectly correctly".
He told Britain's domestic Press Association news agency that O'Connor had done "exactly the right thing" in bringing it to his attention.
The Mirror said such a strike would have been "the most spectacular foreign policy disaster since the Iraq war itself."
The newspaper said that the memo "casts fresh doubt on claims that other attacks on al-Jazeera were accidents". It cited the 2001 direct hit on the channel's Kabul office.
Blair's former defence minister Peter Kilfoyle challenged Downing Street to publish the transcript.
"I hope the prime minister insists this memo be published," he told the Mirror.
"It gives an insight into the mindset of those whe were architects of the war."
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