Bush: Kerry Wrongly Questions Allawi

[wicket]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=1&u=/ap/20040924/ap_on_el_pr/bush

Democrat John Kerry wrongly questioned the credibility of the interim Iraqi leader, and "you can't lead this country" while undercutting an ally, President Bush (news - web sites) said Friday.

Bush and interim Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi had hopeful words for the future of Iraq a day earlier, which Kerry characterized as putting the "best face" on a Bush administration policy in Iraq that has gone wrong.

"This brave man came to our country to talk about how he's risking his life for a free Iraq, which helps America," Bush said at a campaign event in battleground Wisconsin. "And Senator Kerry held a press conference and questioned Mr. Allawi's credibility. You can't lead this country if your ally in Iraq feels like you question his credibility."

Phil Singer, a spokesman for the Democratic nominee, said the president is trying to change the subject. "George Bush has failed to be upfront with the American people about what's going on in Iraq, offering fantasyland descriptions of the situation on the ground," he said. "Facts can be stubborn things and when there's a gap between the reality and the words coming out of the White House, we are going to point them out."

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Blow it out your ASS, Bush!!!! :grr:

[MallRat]

1. Nice to see some message discipline!

The Clinton Crew is in full effect, boyeeeee.

-MR

[Renew Deal]

5. I like the quick, solid response.

[Worst Username Ever]

2. Rebut

Half of our allies question Bush's credibility, and he thinks HE can lead?

[King Coal]

14. Half? I think it is more than that.

[maxsolomon]

33. what allies?

costa rica & nepal are out.

[AlCzervik]

3. He made yet another Freudian slip in is blathering

"My opponent says we'd be safer if Saddam was still in power and if we didn't go into Iraq"...."I agree, i mean i disagree". I watched some of that koolaid seminar and maybe I'm just too hopeful but there wasn't hardly the enthusiasm from this crowd that he normally gets.

[whistle]

4. Is Allawi the new messiah of Iraq? Should we expect him to...

...part the waters on the Tigrus and Euphrades Rivers? Well, read this and see what you think:

<snip>
US media covers for Allawi—Washington’s executioner-in-chief in Iraq
By James Conachy
22 July 2004

On July 17, two of Australia’s leading daily newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, published the testimony of two unnamed Iraqi men who claim to have witnessed the interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, shoot and kill at least six prisoners at the Al-Amariyah security center in Baghdad. The murder of the suspected anti-US insurgents was reportedly carried out in mid-June, in the presence of Iraq’s interior minister and American military personnel, among others.

<link> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/alla-j22_prn.shtml

[kokomo]

18. Allawi murdered all over Europe back in his Baathsterd days

Allawi, like his cousins, the Chalabis, is Shiite, but the Shia Ayatollah Sistani seems to want nothing to do with any of them. Allawi, a former CIA operative, will just be another SHAH-like puppet for big oil. I fear the "new boss" we select for Iraq will be just like the "old boss"!

[aquart]

6. You mean, like what Bush did to France?

Wasn't France an ally?

[wicket]

8. Germany too

And Canada. And so many others, sheesh, he's being such a hypocrite!!! But what else is new.

[saigon68]

21. He really dissed them

and then his people called them surrender monkeys

[kerryin2004]

7. Is Allawi an ally or a puppet??

Or does that even make a difference to Bush and his sheep??

[wicket]

9. They are one and the same in Bush's mind

[Eye and Monkey]

17. What Bush REALLY said - "Allawi is ah, ah...A LIE..."

Mere coincidence that "a lie" sounds like "ally".

[librechik]

10. what a load--they are trying so hard to turn America into a Soviet State

where citizens are forbidden to criticize the leaders. They have success with a few terrified zombies, but the rest of us aren't going to take this sort of thing lying down!

[Richardson08]

11. Allawi is really Baghdad Bob

[msturgis524]

12. As long as he doesn't question our allies cred

The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of U.N. demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/2002091...

Oh wait he did that?????

[progressivebydesign]

13. This blurb about Wisconsin in the article... where Bush made remarks..

"Wisconsin is one of the few battleground states that has gained jobs since Bush took office. The unemployment rate is up nearly a percentage point, but Labor Department (news - web sites) records show a gain of 200 jobs since January 2001. "

200 jobs since 2001??? TWO HUNDRED JOBS???? And the article states that Bush is AHEAD 10 points in Wisconsin? Must be something in the cheese, because a job gain of 200 in 3 years should be something to be ANGRY about.. not something to use as an excuse to re-elect Bush.

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Please tell Mr Bush to go Cheney himself

The leader of Iraq is Ali al-Sistani.

The Iraqis don't need our version of democracy. They already know who their leaders are. They have already chosen their clerics and religious leaders.

We can put in as many puppets as we want, but Iraq will never have peace. Only until we let the Iraqi people have their country back and recognize al-Sistani as the real leader of the Iraqi people, will the Iraqis begin to rebuild their society.

[cliss]

16. ....there we go.....he comes out with it....

"...a free Iraq, which HELPS AMERICA". What does he mean here, helps America? So far, I've seen are expenses. A budget deficit that's as big as the Grand Canyon.

Lots of bloodshed. Lots of hatred around the world directed at us. Little reward.

So come on, George. Out with it. Tell us what you REALLY mean.

[fishwax]

19. So it's not only unpatrioutic to question bush

but it's also unpatriotic to question other world leaders.

That's good to know.

:eyes:

[shanti]

24. only the designated leaders!

n/t

[fishwax]

29. D'oh!

Good Point :)

[Carolab]

20. Undercutting an ALLY?

So now, Iraq is an "ally"? Ally-awi? WTF?

[Just Me]

22. He read the same propaganda you do, DUB!!! For the love of money,...

,...you do go on and on while I make sure to move all my shoes out of reach to ensure an anger management (non-destructive) program,...you could not handle.

BTW

I am creating a really BIG punching bag that will have a sign above it stating "All civilized people believe in anger management" and below it stating "TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT" with the punching bag having written on it "BEAT BUSH"!!!

:bounce:

[shanti]

23. "failed to be upfront" = lying

gotcha~!

[NYC Liberal]

25. Awwwwwwwwwww!

Guess the media whores are gonna have to work double-time now. They got their new orders today: now they have to protect Bush AND Allawi.

[dArKeR]

26. Allawi pooh-poohs Iraq carnage

Iraq's prime minister said `There are no problems. It's safe. It's good' as he tried to build US trust in his regime's leadership

It may have seemed odd that interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi spent a few of his precious first minutes at the White House giving reporters a geography lesson.

But just as he came to Washington to erase voters' doubts about US President George W. Bush's dogged determination to keep fighting in Iraq, Allawi also was seeking credibility for his own leadership, with an eye toward elections in his country come January.

That meant convincing the American power structure that he's got everything under control.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/09/25/2003204294

[daleo]

27. Allawi should go for a walk in Iraq

Without his battalion of mercenaries to protect him. He would find out how safe and good it is, quite quickly.

[dArKeR]

30. I bet he is transported via a Bradley and not even to ride in a car.

Mark my words!

[flordehinojos]

28. "You can't lead this country while questioning an ally"?

Isn't that almost like saying, "You can't have democracy if you question it's leader?", or isn't it like the UNDERSCORE which explains why bush wants no questions of his leadership in his own political rallies? I mean, how can he, in his mind, lead this country if he, the leader, is at all questioned on his leadership!!!!
I mean, the man just painted a subliminal portrait of himself as a DICTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[snippy]

31. Kerry needs to point out that there are millions of Americans who

firmly believe that neither Bush nor Allawi are being truthful about Iraq and that when Bush attempts to attack Kerry for saying so BUSH ACTUALLY IS ATTACKING ALL OF THOSE AMERICANS.

Every time the republicans play the Hatriotism card the democrats need to point out that they are attacking millions of Americans.

[wicket]

32. Those millions of Americans don't matter in Bush's mind

He needs to be reminded that he is president of ALL Americans, not just the ones he agrees with. Let's remind him on November 2nd.

[neverforget]

34. Bush: Quit picking on mini-me!

[Hailtothechimp]

35. How about we call him "AYAM APUPPET" instead?

It rolls off the tongue the same way.

[janx]

36. 250 anti-Bush* protesters in Janesville, Wisconsin?!

That's GREAT!

[struggle4progress]

37. Boosh don't like nary a none of them there questions. eom

[leetrisck]

38. Sort of like bush questioning South Korea in front

of our whole country (when the South Korean President was here shortly after bush took office) and made a complete fool out of himself and destroyed the ongoing negotiations between N.& S. Korea - all because Powell had said "we're going to follow the Clinton policy" That was a disgrce. What Kerry said isn't.