Daschle eats his words, and then some

R rhisiart at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 29 13:32:57 PST 2003


why do we still ignore the fact that gore/lieberman threw the 2000 election?

why do we still ignore the fact that not one senator, including the great white hope Paul Wellstone, signed the petitions of the black caucus?

why do we ignore the votes in favor of the patriot act and of allowing shrub to wage war?

why do we ignore the warning from scalia that the constitution does not give americans the right to vote for president?

and on and on. not enough bandwidth on this message board for detailing all the congressional sellouts.

----- Original Message -----

From: Nathan Newman

To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 12:03 PM

Subject: Re: Daschle eats his words, and then some

I'm not sure what you expect- Daschle is from one of the more conservative

states and still denounced Bush's failures and has only apologized for the

timing of his remarks. Daschle hasn't even been a particularly strong

antiwar person-- he voted for the resolution last fall-- so what's the

point?

We do this game all the time-- ignore the two-thirds of House Dems who

voted against authorization for war, ignore Gore's denunciation of the war

leadup, downplay critical remarks on the war even from Dems who voted for

the fall resolution-- then claim, see there is no difference.

-- Nathan

----- Original Message -----

From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>

[So Nathan, can you tell us how this is anything but revolting?]

Daschle Says His Iraq Criticism of Bush Ill-Timed

Fri Mar 28, 6:52 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle

labels as ill-timed his charge that President Bush (news - web sites)

"failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war."

Daschle said in Washington on March 17: "I'm saddened, saddened that

this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced

to war." He voiced his criticism just hours before the president gave

Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) an ultimatum to leave Iraq (news -

web sites) in 48 hours or face a U.S.-led invasion.

"I don't think the timing of those comments were necessarily the

best," Daschle was quoted as telling reporters from his home state of

South Dakota on Thursday. "I had no idea when I said them what the

timing of the military operation would be." A Daschle aide on Friday

confirmed the senator's remarks.

In response to a wave of Republican criticism, Daschle said the next

day he stood by his remarks. A Daschle aide said on Friday the

senator still stands by them.

In speaking with South Dakota reporters on Thursday, Daschle saluted

Bush's execution of the war as well as the U.S. troops fighting it.

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