Lindsey Graham is tough on CNN with Wolf. "Kerry's vision is wrong." he says. ( Too bad I missed his tough criticism of Senator Kerry, but did hear Graham say, "how chilling it must be for the Iraqis fighting for their independence", to hear Kerry's criticism.
Senator Levin, in rebuttal, calls "the administration stubborn, not even listening to it's own intelligence. This administration still paints a rosy picture", Levin says.
1.028 US Troops killed. Graham says "bottom line, it will get worse before it gets better, I agree we've made some mistakes, you got 2 competing forces, terrorists, who want to destroy democracy, you got pro democracy forces getting killed. If we stand behind pro democracy forces, they will win", says Graham.
Blitzer says "I don't see an exit strategy, do you senator Graham". "Yes, I do" Graham says, "we do need more troops, this is just like WW 2, we're in it for the duration, and we're there till there is a democracy."
Levin says, " We are very pragmatic people, we should change directions, but the administration is unwilling, stubborness is not a strategy...the only thing I see is this administration doing is trying to hang in there till after the Nov election. The president is locked into his own rhetoric.", says Levin. Bllitzer forces Levin to give an option to his criticism. Levin says, "you gonna force me to come up with a strategy now?". humma humma Levin says, well "we got to force their police to control their own terrorists," Levin says "Bush doesn't have a strategy. "We have to involve other countries who aren't involved now...other moslem countries come in to help."
Graham shoots one outta the park, "We are training their police, and everytime terrorists kill Iraqis training to be police, we have more volunteering to do that job. we do have other moslem countries helping, Iraqi police are training in Jordan, I've been there and seen them, and we are involving other countries as well".
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Congressman Christopher Cox on his recommendation to have congress investigate CBS. "My recommendation was to have a staff investigation, not a congressional hearing, let me clear that up. We have the same interest here as we did in hearings about the media coverage of the 2000 elections. But the staff comes first, and if it becomes established that the memos were forgeries, we need to know how government documents were forged."
Cox adds, "I think all we know at this point is that CBS at a minimum is that they wanted to get the story out so bad they were negligent in checking their sources".
congressman Rangle says, " I think it's frightening to think about congressional staff investigate the media, the congress should stay a million miles away from it...the media will establish whether a crime was committed. I gotta son who opted to go to the Marines, KErry opted to go to Viet Nam. blah blah.
Rangle says, "whats wrong with Cox's recommendation is that it intimidates every media outlet. And anyway, CBS says they will investigate, and the other media is already investigating. NO ONE HAS DISPUTED THE SUBSTANCE OF THE MEMOs. (of course Rangle got in the talking points.
Cox refuses to let Rangle get away with saying Bush didn't do his duty. GOOD FOR COX!!
Rangle won't let it drop, goes on and on about Bush refusing to take his physical, Cox says Bush flew more hours than many who did go to Viet Nam. Cox does not back down!!!
Rangle sounds silly now, "Kerry didn't run off to Canada".
Thanks for the report on CNN
Rangel and his fellow Dems put legislation in the house to start up a draft. Then they blamed teh Republicans for it as an election year ploy. Trying to hype fear about a draft THEY started. Unbelievable...