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Re: Kennedy's 'Texas' remark stirs GOP reaction
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Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:12:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
> [Kennedy's 'Texas' remark stirs GOP reaction]
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> <http://cnn.allpolitics.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=-1&urlID=7597368&fb=Y&partnerID=2001>
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> He said Bush officials had failed to account for $1.5 billion of the $4
> billion the war costs each month, citing a recent report by the Congressional
> Budget Office.
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> "My belief is this money is being shuffled all around to these political
> leaders in all parts of the world, bribing them to send in troops," he told
> the AP.
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> Kennedy was one of 23 senators who opposed the resolution last year
> authorizing Bush to go to war in Iraq.
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> "Gee, I had that $1.5 billion right here in my pocket when I left the house
> this morning. Do you take plastic? How about phoney-baloney entries against
> the national deficit?"
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> Is no one else scared that of the few DC people making any sense at all, one
> of them is Kennedy?
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> -- Hop-Frog
The response from Dubya...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98117,00.html
(yeah it's Fox News, that 'fair and balanced' site... but it's a matter of
convenience)
"
The comments also made President Bush bristle. In an exclusive interview with
Fox News, the president called Kennedy's remarks "uncivil."
"I mean, Senator Kennedy, who I respect, and with whom I have worked, should not
have said we were trying to bribe foreign nations. I mean, my regret is -- I
don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's
fair game. I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse
to become so uncivil that people say -- use words that they shouldn't be using,"
Bush said in an interview that aired Monday night.
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Which words of Sen. Kennedy did Dubya take issue with?
"In the interview, Kennedy said that the Bush administration had made up the
threat from Iraq for political points and bribed international leaders to go
along with the Iraq war."
"Bribed"? or the "made up threat"? Well, turns out that, indeed, there were no
WoMD found, so that part of the 'imminent threat' was, at best, a
'misinterpretation of intelligence', but more than likely, just made up.
As for the bribery? Well, accounting for the missing money would be a sure way
of disproving that.
But, like the weapons that Dubya knew existed and knew where they were, weren't
actually there or existing at all, I highly doubt that this 'missing money' will
turn up in any sensible fashion.
Dubya's new executive plan-
Fool them (the people) once, shame on them
Fool them again, shame on them again!
Fool them yet a third time--hey, it worked the first two times...
Who is the more foolish--the fool in charge or the fools who let him remain
there?
Dave K
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