Bob Kerrey and Max Cleland Call for Karl Rove's Resignation

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9/1/2004 4:59:00 PM

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to today's outrageous attacks on John Kerry's service by Karl Rove, former Georgia Senator Max Cleland and former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey made the following statements

Senator Max Cleland:

"Karl Rove was behind it all, it's part of his smear campaign to tarnish to tarnish the records and service of Vietnam Veterans, and now he's doing it again. I find it interesting that three different people have had to resign from basically the Bush Campaign and their official duties because of this ad, because they are all tied together."

Senator Bob Kerrey:

"If the question is whether or not there is any independence left between the campaign and these swift boat ads, that question has now been answered. Karl Rove has been in enough political campaigns to understand how separate you need to be from these independent efforts and he just ended that separation. If Ginsberg resigned, so should he."

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WHERE WERE THEY?

KARL ROVE - TOO BUSY WORKING ON CAMPAIGNS

ROVE GOT STUDENT DEFERMENT, THEN DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE. According to the Bush campaign, Rove drew the number 84 in the draft lottery when he graduated from high school in 1969 and received a student deferment upon enrolling at the University of Utah that fall. In the fall of 1971, after transferring to the University of Maryland, he was notified by his draft board in Salt Lake City that his student deferment had been revoked. Rove then was put into the extended priority status, which Schmidt said made him among the first eligible to be called in early 1972, but he was not called. (Washington Post, 4/17/04)

ROVE WORKED ON CAMPAIGNS, COLLEGE REPUBLICANS. "Rove acknowledges that, in 1970, he used a false identity to gain entry to the campaign offices of Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon, who was running for state treasurer. Once inside, Rove swiped some letterhead stationery and sent out 1,000 bogus invitations to the opening of the candidate's headquarters promising 'free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing.'" In 1971, Karl Rove quit college to become executive director of the College Republicans. From 1973-74, Rove worked as an assistant to Bush's father at the RNC. Rove opposed compulsory service and avoided the draft, winning high school debates with his views. But Rove supported Nixon in Vietnam, saying, "I was living in a relatively conservative state (Utah), and it was hard to sympathize with all those Commies," he says. (Washington Post, 7/23/99; Houston Press, 6/17/99; James Moore, Bush's Brain, p.121-22)

ROVE OPPOSED THE DRAFT. According to the book "Bush's Brain," about Karl Rove

More details:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=35534

[cheshire]

1. They need to round them all up. tar and feather them and run em out a town

[cvoogt]

2. KKKRove'll surely listen

I mean, if two Vietnam veterans say he should resign, how could he refuse? He obviously has so much respect for the lives of our servicemen and women. </sarcasm>

[Catch22Dem]

3. What were Rove's attacks?

It says today's attacks. I haven't heard anything.

[Leilani]

4. Bob Kerrey gave an interview to journalists

(according to FOX)

& said F them... & you can print that!

LOL!!! I think he was talking about the Swiftboaters!

[speedoo]

5. We need a chickenhawk hanging.

Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rove, Giuliani, Ashcroft etc.

Is there enough rope?

Gotta make sure we have some for the deserter-in-chief.

[jmowreader]

6. I'll get you all the rope you need

Our interim store manager is a retired command sergeant major who hates Bush's guts. He will be overjoyed to mark down as much rope as you need.

We'll also mark down the lumber you need to build a huge gallows, give you free rental on a jackhammer and a framing nailer, even loan you the Ditch Witch.

Just bring lots of people to help build.

[bigtree]

7. Kick

:kick: