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Kerry: "Patriotic to criticize Iraq War
Sen. John Kerry, who lied in order to win Purple Hearts during the Vietnam
War and lied that his comrades committed war atrocities, in a speech at
Grinnell, Iowa said that it was patriotic to criticize the Iraq War.
"The patriotic obligation to speak out becomes even more urgent when
politicians refuse to debate their policies or disclose the facts," Kerry
said. "And even more urgent when they seek, perversely, to use their own
military blunders to deflect opposition and answer their own failures with
more of the same."
Kerry used many similarities of the Vietnam War in describing the Iraq War
except to also say that we were in a long dark tunnel with no light at the
end according to the
Des Moines Register:
"The war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq are now converging in too many
tragic respects," Kerry said.
"As in Vietnam, we engaged militarily in Iraq based on official deception
... and as in Vietnam, we have stayed and fought and died even though it is
time for us to go."
The
L.A. Times reports Kerry as saying:
"Although no one is being jailed today for speaking out against the war in
Iraq, the spirit of intolerance for dissent has risen steadily, and the
habit of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic has become the common currency
of the politicians currently running our country," he said.
Democrat investigation of Bush
The
Washington Post reports on what a Democrat controlled House has in mind:
Democratic leaders, increasingly confident they will seize control of the
House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their
first week in power that would raise the minimum wage, roll back parts of
the Republican prescription drug law, implement homeland security measures
and reinstate lapsed budget deficit controls.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in an interview last week
that a Democratic House would launch a series of investigations of the Bush
administration, beginning with the White House's first-term energy task
force and probably including the use of intelligence in the run-up to the
invasion of Iraq. Pelosi denied Republican allegations that a Democratic
House would move quickly to impeach President Bush. But, she said of the
planned investigations, "You never know where it leads to."
DeLay e-mails
The
Washington Times reports on a breaking Associated Press story concerning
e-mails between former Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX) and indicted
lobbyist Jack Abramoff:
Prosecutors have e-mails showing Rep. Tom DeLay's office knew lobbyist Jack
Abramoff had arranged the financing for the Texas Republican's controversial
European golfing trip in 2000 and was concerned "if someone starts asking
questions."
House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting free trips from lobbyists.
Mr. DeLay reported to Congress that a Republican advocacy group had paid for
the spring 2000 trip that he, his wife and top aides took to Scotland and
England.
The e-mails obtained by the Associated Press show Mr. DeLay's staff asked
Abramoff -- not the advocacy group -- to account for the costs, which had to
be legally disclosed on congressional travel forms. Mr. DeLay's office was
worried the group being cited as paying the costs might not even know about
them, the e-mails state.
Abramoff's team sought to low-ball the cost estimates, and Mr. DeLay's
office ultimately reported to Congress a total that was a few thousand
dollars less than the one the lobbyist provided, the documents show.
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