Kerry Says Bush In "Make-Believe World" Misleading American People

[KittyWampus]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-22-kerry_x.htm

By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.

President Bush is living in a make-believe world in his understanding of Iraq, misleading the American people and attacking Democrats on phony issues... John Kerry said... "Even today, he blundered again saying there are only a handful of terrorists in Iraq,"... "George Bush retreated from Fallujah and other communities in Iraq which are now overrun with terrorists and threaten our troops."

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Kerry said that in criticizing his statements on Iraq, Bush was "living in a make-believe world," unwilling to tell the truth or to understand the situation in Iraq.

The Democrat said he had laid out "steps to win the war, not to change, not to retreat, steps to win. George Bush is trying to fight a phantom here because he won't tell the American people the truth, so he sets up something that's not a real issue and attacks it."

Bush "missed a huge opportunity" at the United Nations this week to try to persuade other nations' leaders to join the United States in Iraq and the broader anti-terror war, Kerry said... I don't think he's providing the leadership we need," ... "I will do a better job of dealing with Iraq and winning the war and fighting the war on terror, period."

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.... Responding to Cheney's criticism of Kerry, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said in a statement that Bush and Cheney "are the last two people we need a lecture from about how to keep the American people safe."

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Edwards is smokin'!

Great answer! These guys need to keep pouring it on. Even the RW media can't hide what is going on in Iraq. People are sitting up and taking notice.

[Jacobin]

8. That SOB can think on his feet!!!

PERFECT COMEBACK...."last two people I would rely on.."

Perfect

[NewYorkerfromMass]

19. 9/11 ipso facto. eom

[acmavm]

2. And they just keep whipping ass everyday. So this is what they meant

by John Kerry being a great closer.

Theresa Heinz Kerry said that her husband was at his most dangerous when backed into a corner. She wasn't joking.

[mzmolly]

3. I like the repetition.

They're getting their point across! :toast:

[LynnTheDem]

4. YES!!!!

Bush and Cheney "are the last two people we need a lecture from about how to keep the American people safe."

[faithnotgreed]

5. looks even better when you do it!

[Jacobin]

9. THAT would be a bumper sticker, my friend

Edwards manufactures these statements like diamonds from a diamond mind.

He is GREAT

[KDLarsen]

17. Good lord..

.. it won't be pretty in the VP debate - I mean, Edwards is going to eat Cheney alive and spit out all the fat parts.

[Kierkegaard]

18. "...spit out all the fat parts."

Which is most of him, including his head. Let's hope JE doesn't get any pacemaker parts lodged in his throat.

[Chelsea Patriot]

22. Or Chandra's heart

[Tripmann]

21. I think..

..I'm looking forward to the VP debate even more than seeing monkeyboy stumble over the english language at his one. Edwards and, sadly to a lesser extent, Kerry have the brains and ammunition to make mincemeat out of them both.

Tripmann

[Crachet2004]

6. Damn, I like what Edwards said!

Hot as a firecracker!

[oldtime dfl_er]

7. they need to dominate the headlines

and make this kind of big news every day. No easing of the pressure!!

[MasonJar]

10. Is this in the news? or just here on DU?

[Zero Gravitas]

11. Yes!!!

Kerry & Edwards need to keep hammering this home over and over again every day until the election. Kerry in a landslide! Good bye and good riddance to Bush & the neocon lunatics!

[fishnfla]

12. Yeah, they found their messages now

and hammer is the right word man, keep hammering Bush on Iraq, its working. I'd bet Clinton hit Kerry with the clue stick on this

[Merlin]

13. JK is building the case against GWB slowly but surely.

Every day he ratchets up the rhetoric, raises the level of the charges against the chimp-in-chief. He's just about got the little bastard cornered. The rest of the campaign should be fun--if we can find away to deal with the Swift Liars.

[K. F. Gibbons]

14. Damn, Damn, Double Damn.

A left, another left, then a hook, ooh an uppercut.

I love to see Kerry bitch slap that spoiled brat.

[KittyWampus]

15. Let's Hope The Label "Delusional" Sticks... It Certainly Fits

[KittyWampus]

16. This Headline Is Too Good To Fall Into Archives

:)

[Catfight]

You mean the "vote for me or you'll die," doesn't cut it? You mean

Bush has to actually stand on his record..or none record...and that mean tall calm rational John Kerry guy is making Bush accountable? How DARE they!LOL

The debates are going to clinch the deal for undecided voters. I'm counting down the days.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. And wasn't he fined by the FCC for saying it?

I swear I read that somewhere.
Duckie

[The Stranger]

23. Dead on target.

Bullseye, John. Kudos to your strategists and speechwriters. This is the only hope -- that half the country will finally awaken from the mass denial.