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03/07/2004 Archived Entry: "Kerry keeps swinging."
Kerry keeps swinging.
Today - about Bush and 9/11.
John Kerry on Sunday accused President Bush of "stonewalling" separate inquiries into the events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks, as well as into the intelligence that suggested Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, endorsed complaints by some members of a federal commission investigating the attacks that Bush was resisting their efforts to get documents and question witnesses.
"Why is this administration stonewalling and resisting the investigation into what happened and why we had the greatest security failure in the history of our country?" Kerry said at a hastily arranged news conference.
"The American people deserve an answer now," Kerry said. "The immediate instinct of the Republicans and this administration was to shut it down."
The White House response was as lame as yesterday's.
"This is another inaccurate attack by John Kerry," responded Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel. "President Bush and his administration have provided extraordinary cooperation and unprecedented access" to the commission. He said it has provided more than 2 million pages of documents and other materials such as computer disks and tape recordings, in addition to providing extensive briefings and submitting to more than 560 interviews.
Of course, Stanzel neglects to mention that Bush opposed the commission, refused to intervene for an extension of their investigation, first refused to testify, then granted an hour with two members of the commission. And he won't require Condi to testify under oath.
Sounds like Kerry's attack was pretty damn accurate to me.
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It seems now that more and more people are realizing that the ritual accusation of dishonesty by the lying hypocrites currently running this country is nothing but noise.
Repugnicants accusing anybody else of inaccuracies and lying? Maybe if they weren't proven liars who mold the facts to fit their apocryphal fantasies, their accusations would have some sort of meaning...
Posted by (: Tom :) @ 03/08/2004 08:57 AM NY
The statement "provided more than 2 million pages of documents and other materials such as computer disks and tape recordings" is one that looks impressive at first glance but upon reflection starts to turn to gray goo.
This is not "full and complete disclosure", it is a DATA DUMP. I don't know how many memebers the commission has or what they have in the way of staff, but who could possibly go through two million documents, not to mention the computer files, in any sort of meaningful way in the time allotted? Is Bushco seriously claiming that all two million of these files are RELEVANT to the inquiry at hand, or does it include Laura's grocery list for Aug. 17, 2003 and a list of songs performed by entertainers at the Gerald Ford 90th birthday party?
Somebody is going to get a hell of a book out of this, but it will be published in 2017. And probably in China, where US intellectuals have fled to set up a refugee community in exile.
Posted by Xan @ 03/08/2004 10:01 AM NY
