Kerry Urges Bush, Cheney to Tell Truth

[takumi]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-100504kerry_lat,1,7465427.story?coll=la-home-headlines

TIPTON, Iowa — Sen. John F. Kerry today called on President Bush and Vice President Cheney to "tell the truth" about the war in Iraq, seizing on new admissions by former Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator L. Paul Bremer and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that undercut one of the administration's rationales for invading the country and its handling of the war's aftermath.

Speaking to reporters outside a middle school in rural eastern Iowa, the Democratic presidential candidate noted that Bremer said in a speech Monday that the U.S. had too few troops to secure the country, and that Rumsfeld separately admitted that there is no "strong, hard evidence" linking Iraq with Al Qaeda.

"It's time for the vice president to be accountable and to answer the questions that have arisen," Kerry said in Tipton, speaking hours before Cheney was scheduled to debate Kerry's running mate, Sen. John Edwards.

"Folks, for weeks, I've been asking the president of the United States to level with the American people and to be candid about the situation in Iraq and about what we face," Kerry said. "Maybe he's simply unwilling to face the truth and to share it with the American people. But the president's stubbornness has prevented him from seeing each step of the way the difficulties and the ways in which we best protect our troops and best accomplish this mission."

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[JuniorPlankton]

1. hahaha

Bush, Cheney and the truth in one sentence. How amusing.

[Goldmund]

2. Slavkomae Urges His Dog, Cat To Go Grocery Shopping

[gadem04]

3. But they didn't

Damn chimp, anyhow. Chimp, chimpy, chimperoo. We need to get this out there. The nation must know.

[Goldmund]

4. Eh?

They didn't?

Who didn't?

They didn't what?

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

[Cats Against Frist]

5. LOL

[Nlighten1]

6. I hope Edwards brings this up tonight.

[bemildred]

7. Now there is a "Swift Boat Veteran for Truth".

A real one with medals to prove it.

[CO Liberal]

8. THAT'LL Shut 'Em Up!!!!

:-)

[pinniped]

9. Notice the disgraced wh has no comment on Bummer's comments.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/10/05/national1112EDT0525.DTL

White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to say whether Bremer had pleaded with Bush for more troops. "We never get into reading out all the conversations they had," McClellan said.

[Lautremont]

10. And if I had a penny on my head, I'd be that much heavier.