Keith's SPECIAL COMMENT tonight on who should really be apologizing.

[madokie]

hope this is ok to post, if not sorry.

Countdown Home: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

Keith's SPECIAL COMMENT tonight on who should really be apologizing.

The flap over what Sen. John Kerry calls his "botched joke" has prompted the Democrat to cancel campaign appearances over the next two days, officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the rhetoric between Kerry and the White House continued to escalate. Bush's spokesman pressed Kerry to apologize for a comment Republicans say was disrespectful of U.S. fighting forces in Iraq, saying he "put gasoline on the fire" of an already sizzling midterm election campaign. "Sen. Kerry may have botched the line, but what he said was insulting to the troops, and what he ought to say is, 'Look, I botched the line, but I'm sorry for giving offense,'" press secretary Tony Snow said on CBS's "The Early Show." "We're not the one who whipped this up into a big issue. Sen. Kerry did so yesterday," said Snow, appearing the day after President Bush and Kerry traded their harshest accusations since the 2004 presidential race. Kerry fired back on MSNBC-TV, accusing the White House of capitalizing on his misstatement. "I'm not gonna let these guys distort something completely out of its context solely for the purpose of avoiding responsibility, which is what they're doing." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13018908/

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey: There's no fight like an old fight. And this week's emotional exchanges between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry were nothing if not old. Kerry screwed up what he called a "botched joke" about Bush's brainpower when it comes to Iraq; Bush pounced by challenging his ex-rival's commitment to the troops. Memo to Bush and Kerry: neither of you are on the ballot next week. And while it may be satisfying to rehash the last election, you both run the risk of looking totally out of touch. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15512649/site/newsweek/

[EVDebs]

1. The destruction of the US Army before our eyes: Cat IV recruiting rises

in order to keep the occupation in Iraq going...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2919859

Permanent bases in Iraq

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0930/p17s02-cogn.html

are the basis of Iraqis themselves supporting the insurgency. BushCo just doesn't get it. War for oil is a military "solution" to an environmental problem; we need to jumpstart Plan B 2.0 (per Lester Brown), but only a Democratic Congress can do the job !

[fooj]

2. In plain sight.

[madokie]

4. which gives credence to what Kerry said

if'n what he said is what he wanted to say as they say and not a gaffe. Go John Kerry we got your back.

[EVDebs]

7. Permanent bases in Iraq are the engine of the insurgency

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0930/p17s02-cogn.html

and Rep Murtha and everyone else who realizes that the occupation needs to be scaled back and a redeployment to Afganistan (and elsewhere, the 'staging area' of Qatar, Kuwait) until Iraq stabilizes ITSELF...until then and only with Democrats controlling Congress as a check on an executive branch that has gone out of control of the people.

BTW, here is a link to the map of the 14 Permanent Bases the Quakers posted

http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

which got them spied upon by the NSA and God only knows who else.

[aquart]

9. It was a gaffe. But the gaffe was painfully true.

It's the truth that hurts.

[madokie]

10. always is

[Guaranteed]

3. GOOD! I am SO GLAD Kerry is not backing down on this.

He can NOT let them do this. He has the truth on his side.

[madokie]

5. It looks like Kerry has his heels dug in and ain't gonna take any shit

[Guaranteed]

8. Good. That actually makes me feel a ton better.

As long as he digs in and doesn't budge, he'll come out just fine.

[helderheid]

6. I sent him this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2539666