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NNN0LHI

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Fri May-07-04 11:57 AM
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Kerry says Bush responsible for Iraq prisoner scandal: spokeswoman

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), raising the tone of his criticism in the Iraq (news - web sites) prisoner-abuse scandal, readied a call for President George W. Bush (news - web sites) to take personal responsibility, his spokeswoman said.

Spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said the Massachusetts senator, campaigning in the states of Arizona and Louisiana, would declare that "responsibility should go right to the top" in the widening scandal. She did not elaborate.

The Democrat renewed Thursday his months-old demand for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign, and indirectly chided the Republican president for not taking responsibility in the affair.

Campaigning in California, he evoked his past as a decorated Naval officer in the Vietnam War and said in his time "the captain always took responsibility" like John Kennedy did for the 1961 failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

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WI_DEM

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Fri May-07-04 11:59 AM
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1. Bush has never taken personal responsibility for

anything in his entire life.

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Don_G

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Fri May-07-04 12:16 PM
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3. Dimbo Accept Responsibility?

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Tellurian

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Fri May-07-04 12:22 PM
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4. Just came in on the tail end of Lieberman's testimony...

didn't sound like much of an inquiry.

Sounded like they are setting the stage to hide behind the troop's safety stationed in Iraq!

Someone needs to point out how the death toll has risen because of these atrocities and it is the Bush Administration are the ones who have put our soldiers at greater risk!

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northernsoul

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Fri May-07-04 12:03 PM
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2. Good! Kerry has to go on offense with this one

I really think we're approaching some kind of tipping point right now, and it's vital that Kerry goes on the record as calling B*sh out on this scandal.

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boobooday

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Fri May-07-04 12:24 PM
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5. Of course he is

I noticed in his apology, he called the American soldiers "wrongdoers." But non-Americans are "evildoers."

:puke:

:puke:

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NewYorkerfromMass

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Fri May-07-04 03:51 PM
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6. WHOA! This contradicts some other opinions..... Raven????

I think Kerry's got to be careful with this. Maybe he knows something others don't....

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sandnsea

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Fri May-07-04 03:54 PM
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7. Not with this

This is despicable and Bush has to take resonsibility for this. The way it was handled was wrong and showed a clear lack of leadership and accountabilty. And how he handles it from here on as well. Are we going to get excuses or accountability? A change of course or stubborn "leadership"? This is one that will get America's full attention and Bush screws up everything. He won't change. That's what I think anyway.

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Fri May-07-04 03:54 PM
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JoFerret

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Fri May-07-04 04:06 PM
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9. Now we're talking

but of course he is never responsible. Silver coke spoon frat boy never takes resonsibility. he ever used a close version of "mistakes were made" passive voice in his so-called apology.

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Fri May-07-04 08:57 PM
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10. SIGN KERRY's Petition to Oust Rummy

Go to: http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rumsfeld.php

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burrowowl

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Fri May-07-04 09:46 PM
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12. I signed the petition

but really, he should be calling for the impeachment G.W. Bu$h.

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slinkerwink

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Fri May-07-04 08:59 PM
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11. now that's what I'm looking for!

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Tellurian

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Fri May-07-04 09:57 PM
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13. Overstated remark. Bush conferred with Rumy privately.

A public rebuke usually entails some sort of admonishment or punishment.
All we read was "Bush (emphatically) intends for Rumsfeld to STAY in his Cabinet."

"Bush has publicly rebuked Rumsfeld for not informing him sooner of the magnitude of the scandal triggered by photographs of US soldiers humiliating hooded and naked Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad."

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Tellurian

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Fri May-07-04 10:16 PM
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14. Now that Sen. Kerry has entered the firestorm...

Edited on Fri May-07-04 10:17 PM by Tellurian

He must realize these people have no compunction at playing rough.

I don't think they would dare visit any harm on him or the children.

These people like to inflict pain, unbearable pain...

I believe his wife is vulnerable. I saw her interview with B. Walters tonight. She is a jewel and compliments him to a T...

He must take care to ensure her safety, especially now, where he is rising up and they feel their foothold in the WH is threatened.

just my instinct speaking here...

I'd feel really bad, if I had never said anything at all-

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Fri May-07-04 10:37 PM
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15. Fault? The real blame goes all the way to Rush Limpdk who, with

the Fundies pushed this evil Shrub onto us via a stolen election and brainwashing psyops. It was the Fundies and Rushes Ditto Heads who gave us this guy, and worse, they still stick by him.

In return Rush;s radio program gets air time in the DOD radio networks, Pathetic move to get more Pub votes but it ain't fair, is it?

Nope, I look to Rush for partial blame, it was he who gave us evil and HATE.

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