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| W.House Accuses Kerry, Surrogates of Guard Attacks |
| 2004-09-09 |
| COLMAR, Pa. (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday accused Democrat John Kerry and his surrogates of instigating a new attack on President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service because Kerry is dropping in opinion polls. Bush also accused Kerry of refusing to reveal the true impact of his spending promises and said the Democratic presidential nominee would have to increase taxes broadly to pay for what the Bush campaign has calculated as $2 trillion in new spending. "America will reject the hidden Kerry tax plan," Bush told supporters. After weeks of Republican criticism of Kerry's decorated war service in Vietnam, Democrats tried to turn the tables on Wednesday with a barrage of questions about whether Bush fulfilled his military obligations in the Texas Air National Guard in the early 1970s. The charges included documents that indicated Bush did not meet performance standards and received favorable treatment. A group called Texans for Truth launched a new ad in which a lieutenant colonel in the Alabama Air National Guard questions whether Bush ever performed his service during a stint in Alabama. "I think you absolutely are seeing a coordinated attack by John Kerry and his surrogates on the president," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. "The polls show Senator Kerry falling behind and it's the same old recycled attacks that we've seen every time the president has come up for election." Makes you wonder if the WH knew they were forgeries before releasing these statements. Heh. |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #11 Of course they knew. Time to stand around and look aggrieved, without interrupting the other guy's self-immolation... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-09-10 12:04:45 AM |
| #10 CBS says: "The statement added that CBS reporters had verified the documents by talking to unidentified individuals who saw them "at the time they were written." I have no doubt of that...LOL |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-09-09 11:51:59 PM |
| #9 Add to that the discrepancy in the signatures. The one on the right is from the CBS document, the one on the left from a document that was actually signed by Killian. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-09-09 11:38:24 PM |
| #8 Check out http://www.powerlineblog.com/ for more on the forged documents, if what powerline is reporting is accurate (and I believe it is) I can't believe how incompentent the person who came up with this is. The very short version is: That these "documents" were written up on a current word processing program, when no such program was in use (or even available) during 1972-1973. |
| Posted by: Lurks Often 2004-09-09 10:04:31 PM |
| #7 It just keeps getting better. Amy Barnes, daughter of Ben Barnes called a radio talk show in Texas and said that her father lied, that he told her he was going to do this weeks ago. If I were to pick the probable forger he would be my prime suspect. Sounds as inept as that other Texas Barnes from 'Dallas'. |
| Posted by: DanNY 2004-09-09 9:27:06 PM |
| #6 the Halliburton connection :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-09 9:01:51 PM |
| #5 Youch. Ben Barnes, who claimed he got W in the National Guard as Lt Governor? Thanx John Podhoretz, NY Post Pres Bush Enters National Guard May 1968. Ben Barnes Becomes Lt Gov Texas January 1969. Am I missing something? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-09 8:58:32 PM |
| #4 THey knew. Now we get a stong linkage between FORGERY of the documents, FRAUD of distributing the documents and the KERRY CAMPAIGN using the documents to attack Bush. BAHAHA! |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-09-09 8:10:59 PM |
| #3 Why are these guys criticizing Kerry and his sympathizers? Just let them slowly self-destruct as they have been. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-09 7:46:21 PM |
| #2 Mrs. D. - Carl Rove probably looked at the suspicious documents and, when his aides helped him to a chair because he was laughing so hard, drew up this statement. Then he started laughing hard again when Tommy "Managua" Harkin and Donna Brazile puffed some righteous ignation. Kitty Kelly now will be the one doing the lines of coke. Because of this forgery her book is toast. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-09 7:37:38 PM |
| #1 Things just got worse for the Dems. The son of the Guard Col says the damaging memo looks like a fraud. The Dems are going to twist off real soon! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-09-09 7:20:20 PM |