Posted on 06/25/2005 1:11:42 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
Dear Friend,
Just hours after learning about an outrageous speech delivered by Karl Rove, President Bush's most senior advisor, I went to the Senate floor -- and I spoke from my heart. I want to share those words with you -- not as a Democrat or Republican, not as a liberal or conservative -- but as an American.
I've attached part of my speech to the end of this email. But, before you read what I said, look again at what Karl Rove said:
Perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. I hope you will join me right now in signing an open letter to the President urging him to thoroughly reject Karl Rove's purposeful attack on the patriotism of those who dare ask the tough questions that best protect American troops. Sign our open letter to President Bush now:
http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php
This isn't the first time that Karl Rove and other White House officials have sought to divide America in ways that make it harder to keep our country safe and our democracy strong. But, it should be the last. That's why I ended my speech with a call on President Bush to fire Karl Rove. It is the only way the President can make it clear that he rejects Rove's effort to distort one of the most unified and patriotic moments in American history into a cheap, divisive, political applause line.
That, of course, is what is most outrageous about Karl Rove's claim that President Bush's political opponents offered "therapy and understanding for our attackers." It isn't true. In the days after 9/11, there were no Democrats, no Republicans. We were all Americans, standing together. President Bush acknowledged that unity in a clear and compelling way at the time.
Now, Karl Rove is purposely twisting those days of unity in order to divide us for political gain. I hope you will act right now to join a growing chorus of Americans calling on the President to fire Karl Rove.
http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php
Please act right now. Sign our open letter to the President and pass it on to others. All Americans have to speak with one powerful voice in response to this outrage. I will continue speaking out and I know I can count on you to stand with me.
Sincerely,
John Kerry
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make America Safe, Not Divided Excerpts of remarks by Senator John Kerry on the Senate floor on Thursday, June 23. "None of us here will ever forget the hours after September 11... and the remarkable response of the American people as we came together as one to answer the attack on our homeland.... [I]t brought out the best of all of us in America.
That spirit of our country should never be reduced to a cheap, divisive political applause line from anyone who speaks for the President of the United States.
I am proud, as my colleagues on this side are, that after September 11, all of the people of this country rallied to President Bush's call for unity to meet the danger. There were no Democrats, there were no Republicans, there were only Americans. That is why it is really hard to believe that last night in New York... the most senior adviser to the President of the United States [was] purposely twisting those days of unity in order to divide us for political gain.
Rather than focusing attention on Osama bin Laden and finding him or rather than focusing attention on just smashing al-Qaida and uniting our effort, as we have been, he is, instead, challenging the patriotism of every American who is every bit as committed to fighting terror as is he.
Just days after 9/11, the Senate voted 98 to nothing, and the House voted 420 to 1, to authorize President Bush to use all necessary and appropriate force against terror. And after the bipartisan vote, President Bush said: "I'm gratified that the Congress has united so powerfully by taking this action. It sends a clear message. Our people are together and we will prevail."
That is not the message that was sent by Karl Rove in New York City last night. Last night, he said: "No more needs to be said about" their "motives."
I think a lot more needs to be said about Karl Rove's motives because they are not the people's motives... They are not the motives of a nation that found unity in that critical moment--Democrat and Republican alike, all of us as Americans.
If the President really believes his own words, if those words have meaning, he should at the very least expect a public apology from Karl Rove. And frankly, he ought to fire him. If the President of the United States knows the meaning of those words, then he ought to listen to the plea of Kristen Breitweiser, who lost her husband when the Twin Towers came crashing down. She said: "If you are going to use 9/11, use it to make this nation safer than it was on 9/11."
Karl Rove doesn't owe me an apology and he doesn't owe Democrats an apology. He owes the country an apology. He owes Kristen Breitweiser and a lot of people like her, those families, an apology. He owes an apology to every one of those families who paid the ultimate price on 9/11 and expect their government to be doing all possible to keep the unity of their country and to fight an effective war on terror.
The fact is, millions of Americans...are asking Washington for honesty, for results, and for leadership--not for political division. Before Karl Rove delivers another political assault, he ought to stop and think about those families and the unity of 9/11.
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Dear President Bush,
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, you movingly spoke of the unity of purpose emanating all across America. Now, Karl Rove, your top political aide, wants us to believe that you weren't telling the truth -- that Americans were offering "therapy and understanding to the attackers." You cannot remain silent as your most senior advisor purposely twists the truth about a great moment of American unity for political gain.
It isn't the first time Karl Rove has crossed the line. It needs to be the last. I call on you to thoroughly reject his cheap, divisive efforts to challenge the patriotism of your political opponents. It's time to fire Karl Rove.
Sincerely,
Your name here
Upon thoughtful reflection, it is in my considered opinion that John Kerry suck on my ba11$.
Thanks for the ping!
Who's john Kerry?
BTTT!!!!!!
First off Senator Kerry: No one questions the Patriotism of you liberal democrats. The truth is that you elite of the extreme left are recognized as being rabidly patriotic-but to whom or what-that is the question. It sure as h*ll isn't to the USA !!!!!
Yes you Left wingnuts were behaving as if you were on our side for a week or so after 9/11......but within months after 9/11 you critters figured out a strategy for being on both sides of the issue, while condemning Bush and sympathizing with the enemy and within a year thereafter, had perfected the democrat spinners talking points to such an extent that you began to blame Bush for the whole d*mn thing.
The Democrats have been nothing but stooges for who ever critized or attacked America or our allies, since shortly after that infamous Chicago Democrat convention.
Rove told the truth-tough sh*t if you people find truth offensive.
Actually the grades were worse than they look- the D's on Kerry's report card were abreviations for Du-u-u-h's.
"Evil is a real force, an entity, a being that exists in this world and directs the actions of willing men. and it lulls the apathetic into a stupor of acceptance! Apathy and evil - they work hand in hand... Evil hates the innocent and the defenseless. Apathy doesn't care as long as it's not personally inconvenienced."
Everything you said, plus the fact that this drivel is orchestrated by the dem machine. They sit around and churn out this stuff as a way to avoid original, sensible ideas about solving the country's problems. So much easier when you're stupid.
he never answers any of his consitiuents' e-mails, but hounds people nearly every day....guess you have to wave dollars in his face, first, to receive a 'cherished' response...???
but then, Fat Teddy hasn't answered any either...
BUMP!
Testify!
I have just gotten into religious fiction - but want thrillers/mysteries, etc. This book is "Shaiton's Fire" by Jake Thoene. It is a terrorism thriller that is down right scary in it's realism.
STFU, you seditionist 'Rat POS, you're not fooling anyone with your faux-patriotic "I'm an American" schtick, you were, are and always will be a traitorous sonuvabitch who betrayed your fellow servicemen, consorted with and gave comfort to the enemy during Vietnam, you violated federal law by entering into negotiations with the Communists in Paris and promoting their political objectives, you are a liar, a cheat and a lothario. And you received a less than honorable discharge from the United States Navy, and that is why you will never fully disclose ALL of your damn records to the PUBLIC, not to your comrades at the Boston Globe, not to your campaign staff. You in fact, are Constitutionally barred from serving as a United States Senator, but that too may be a moot point because you have one of the worst attendance records in the history of the Senate, unless there is an opportunity for you to grandstand in front of the cameras and spew your leftist horsesh!t.
You received your comeuppance from Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, who prevented a yellow turncoat like you from entering the White House. Your day is done. You are over. If you had ANY integrity or dignity, you would have resigned your seat and retired into obscurity along with your alcoholic, gin-soaked raisin ingesting Sugar Mama you call a wife. Let's conclude all this the way I began:
YOU ARE NOT FOOLING ANYONE, so GO TO HELL!
Thanks! I'll check it out - I'm on a non-fiction burn right now - Supreme Court stuff - Buckley's latest - not gotten far with either but really enjoy thriller/mystery - Koontz - Patterson - early King - Clancy - good ole Agatha. I've never read any Thoene - sounds good. Thanks again.
Someone ought to verify that he did, indeed, go to the senate floor and didn't just have an aid insert a statement into the Congressional record instead.
I listened to Men in Black by Levin, and enjoyed it - passed it on to my daughter.
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