Nervous Kerry to Dems: "Go Easy on Rumsfeld"; Repsonse: "Why are you trying to F**K me on this?"

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[crushkerry]

John Kerry burned the midnight oil on the phone with Democrat members of the Senate Armed Services Committee last night. He pleaded with them to go lightly on Donald Rumsfeld when the Secretary of Defense appears before them today at around noon. Rumsfeld is scheduled to answer their questions about allegations of abuse by US soldiers against Iraqi prisoners and the ensuing investigation.

The photos of those alleged cases of abuse have enraged the Arab world. And Democrat bigs on the Armed Services Committee have called for Rumsfled’s head.

But according to our source inside the Kerry campaign, John Kerry badly wants the issue to go away. Kerry fears the longer the issue stays in the news, the greater the likelihood his controversial accusations of war crimes committed by US soldiers in Vietnam – including his own – will become an ancillary issue in the campaign for President. “The 9-11 Commission is already going to discredit Bush in their report. If we push things too far, there is bound to be a backlash,” our source told us. “Tonight’s cable news talk shows were proof. Virtually every one of them ran footage of John Kerry in 1971 trashing his fellow veterans and admitting atrocities.”

Our source told us that the Democrat Senate Caucus had originally planned to “rake Rumsfeld over the coals” at today’s hearing, but that Kerry wanted them to tone it down. Kerry had heated phone conversations with at least two key Democrats on the Armed Services Committee, demanding to know of one, “Why are you trying to f—k me on this?”

No word yet on whether Kerry was successful in persuading his fellow Democrats to go easy on Rumsfeld or not. I guess we’ll just have to stay tuned to the hearings.

[sauropod]

Should be interesting TV viewing.

[kcvl]

Is this for real?

[boxerblues]

crybaby kerry doesnt want his actions to be compared to what happened in Iraq. blown it out your hinney john

[winodog]

Haha this is just too ironic. You would think someone is writing this script.

[InvisibleChurch]

guess maybe kerry shouldn't have committed war crimes

[The G Man]

Interesting. I was hoping they'd go for broke for Rummy as I strongly suspect it would backfire on them. I think John Q. Public is actually a bit resentful of all the media coverage of this prisoner abuse story. I think everyone's a bit ashamed and knows we have to take our lumps, but the double standard the world is holding us to is painfully obvious to most everyone.

[babaloo]

I did not see any of the cable shows referred to in this article. I would be interested if any of them did comment on Kerry's allegations or admissions. Did anyone see anything about this?

[verity]

"have enraged the Arab world"

It goes to sleep enraged and awakens enraged.

[Izzy Dunne]

But according to our source inside the Kerry campaign,

Interesting that a source privy to the phone calls would blab. Not exactly cabinet material, here.

[freeangel]

Would that be butchering innocent women and children as opposed to "humiliating" the terrorists?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“Why are you trying to f—k me on this?”

I can only tell him that a certain person needs things to go this way. I wont name names but she looks exactly like Hillary Clinton.

[Allegra]

The photos of those alleged cases of abuse have enraged the Arab world.

I get so sick of that line.

Photos of the twin towers burning and bodies being dragged through the streets of Fallujah and then grtoesquely displayed have angered the Western world.

[mrtysmm]

It hadn't occurred to me that this could backfire on Kerry. I say "bring it on"...I think Rumsfeld can take care of himself.

[crushkerry]

Yeah, this source are not made up. We broke some news about possible shake ups high up in the Kerry camp, and just yesterday in teh New Republic they had a big story about it.

[kcvl]

I say that all politicians need to pick a side. You are either with us or against us. Either put up or shut up. You can't support the troops if you don't fund them, you can't support the troops and blame them for everything, you can't support this country and constantly condemn it, you can't "represent" our country and trash it and you can't tell us you care about the citizens and play politics with our military men and women. So get it straight you political morons and either put up or shut up.

I can't imagine them saying the same thing about another country that they say about the United States. They want it both ways and it's time to shut them up.

I want to know whose names are on Saddam's money for oil list.

[EllaMinnow]

Kerry had heated phone conversations with at least two key Democrats on the Armed Services Committee, demanding to know of one, “Why are you trying to f—k me on this?”

(cough)Hillary(cough) is on that committee...

[jocon307]

"It goes to sleep enraged and awakens enraged."

And then it goes to the coffee shop and has a few cups and some smokes enraged, and then it goes home and beats its wife enraged, and then maybe it strangles its daughter enraged, and then it prays five times a day with its enraged butt in the enraged air.

Why do they hate us, because they hate themselves.

[Poohbah]

Hmm. We'll see who's running the Democratic Party real quick.

If they're polite and deferential to Rumsfeld, Kerry's calling the shots.

If Senator Clinton takes the lead in castigating the SECDEF, then I would advise Senator Kerry to not fly on light aircraft, or to accept any invitations to Fort Marcy Park...

[wtc911]

Photos of the twin towers burning and bodies being dragged through the streets of Fallujah and then grtoesquely displayed have angered the Western world......

Only part of the Western world, other parts thought we had it coming.