Kennedy is on the Situation Room now, btw.
First Kerry and the statement he issued:
I wish President Bush knew better than to dishonor America's veterans by playing the politics of fear and smear on Veterans Day. Instead of trying to salvage his slumping political fortunes, the Commander in Chief should honor our men and women in uniform with a clear strategy for success in Iraq. But this Administration abandoned that path long ago, and our troops have paid the price for it.
"This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition. That's why Scooter Libby has been indicted. That's why a statement in the State of the Union Address was retracted. It's a dangerous day for our national security when an Administration's word is no good. Today they continue the same games hoping Americans forget the mess they made in Iraq that's cost over 2,000 Americans their lives and their failure to find Osama bin Laden. Americans will not forget, and neither will those of us who defend our country by asking tough questions and demanding a new course in Iraq.
And Sen. Kennedy:
"Its deeply regrettable that the president is using Veterans Day as a campaign-like attempt to rebuild his own credibility by tearing down those who seek the truth about the clear manipulation of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war," Kennedy said in a statement.
"Instead of providing open and honest answers about how we will achieve success in Iraq and allow our troops to begin to come home," Kennedy said, "the president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never should have fought."
I'm pissed off that Bush still thinks he's on the campaign trail, saying Kerry voted to go to war too, I assume in rebuttal of Kerry's call for pullout.
You're not running against Kerry anymore, Shrub.
But even if you don't like Kerry, or even if you, God forbid agree with Bush about Kerry's vote, PLEASE DON'T LET THE REPUBLICANS WEASLE OUT OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MESS IN IRAQ BY BLAMING IT ON THE DEMOCRATS WHO DIDN'T STOP THEM.
WHAT ARE WE, THEIR MOTHER?!
