April 13, 2004
QUOTABLES:
"Just as you can't absolve anyone who had
responsibility over this five-year period (before
the attacks), I don't feel at this stage of the
game that I'm willing to point the finger at one
person," 9-11
Commissioner Bob Kerry said.
"Right now, what I would do differently is, I mean
- look, I'm not the president, and I didn't create
this mess, so I don't want to acknowledge a
mistake that I haven't made,"
said John Kerry.
"When things are going as badly as they're going
now," political
scientist Stephen Hess says, "you really
don't have to remind people that they're going
badly, especially when you probably don't have any
immediate solutions for making things go better."
"The Pentagon is quietly recruiting new members to
fill local draft boards, as the machinery for
drafting a new generation of young Americans is
being quietly put into place, Young Americans need
to know that a train is coming, and it could run
over their generation in the same way that the
Vietnam War devastated the lives of those who came
of age in the sixties,"
Ralph Nader
said.
If CNN's cameras and correspondents had been
positioned at Omaha Beach on June 6, the pressure
on FDR and Winston Churchill to negotiate a
cease-fire by nightfall, "to give peace a chance,"
would have been irresistible.
-- writes Wesley
Pruden.
…Monsieur Kerry is "the tofu candidate," with no
flavor of his own, ready to absorb every flavor,
taste, spice or savory, piquant or not, that
touches him. He's the long, tall hunk of tofu that
neither America nor its friends or the friends of
friends could easily survive.
-- writes Wesley
Pruden.
Presidential Press Conference tonight
Tonight at 8:30 p.m., President Bush will hold a
press conference in the East Room of the White
House. The East Room is reserved for formal press
conferences by the President.
Iraq is certain to be much of the focus of
questions by the press. The President has been
urged by such lights as Sen. Richard Lugar and
Sen. Joe Biden (the chairman and minority leader
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) to
spell out what his plan is for the hand-off at the
end of June to an Iraqi government.
In addition, at tonight’s press conference
President Bush will address the President’s Daily
Briefing of August 6, 2001 and his actions prior
to 9/11.
Poll numbers supporting the President have begun
to fall with the increased violence in Iraq.
American forces recently began taking on both the
Sunnis in Northern Iraq and the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
in Southern Iraq. This is reported to have
resulted in uniting certain factions of the Shiite
and Sunnis in killing Americans and spawning
kidnappings.
There has been a continued call by many that more
troops are needed in Iraq. The commanders in Iraq
have now requested two more brigades of battle
grade troops.
Kerry continues to call for the internationalizing
of the effort. Kerry said, "If I were president
today, right now today, I would be going very
directly to the United Nations and I would summon
the world to an effort that I think the world has
a stake in."
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