Kerry Criticizes Bush For Attacks on Clarke

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29991-2004Mar27.html

Kerry Criticizes Bush For Attacks on Clarke
Rice Urged to Testify Publicly on Sept. 11

By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 28, 2004; Page A05

NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 27 -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) on Saturday accused President Bush of resorting to "character assassination" to discredit critics of the White House's anti-terrorism strategy and new Medicare law.


Treading cautiously into the latest controversy over Bush's commitment to fighting al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Kerry also called on national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly before the bipartisan commission investigating the deadly terrorist strikes.

"If Condoleezza Rice can find time to do 60 minutes on television before the American people, she ought to find 60 minutes to speak to the commission under oath," Kerry told reporters. "We are talking about the security of our country." Rice has been interviewed privately by commission members, but has refused to talk to them in a public forum.

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After what many Democrats considered a somewhat bumbling and defensive start to his general election campaign, Kerry has returned from vacation with a new strategy of focusing on economic issues, such as job loss here in North Kansas City, and on running a more upbeat and statesmanlike campaign.

A top Kerry aide, who requested anonymity to discuss internal strategy freely, said the Democratic nominee-in-waiting does not want to engage in daily fights with Bush over national security, especially when it is provoked by the president and his allies, and does not want to appear to be politicizing the terrorism investigation. Clarke's testimony, unless discredited, will damage Bush's credibility with or without Kerry highlighting it, the aide said.
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They sure keep me snickering with this B.S. and the RW press in trying to prop up for their little chimp boy

Notice how they like to have an anonymous writer, talking about anonymous other people

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