White House (Scotty) Response to Kennedy (posted on WH site)

[doxieone]

It is very noteworthy to post this here. It is WH (Scotty) replying to Kennedy, and then using the same web page to post Kennedy's past quotes about the Iraq war.

I don't recall them using their web page in such a manner before, and I believe it is newsworthy.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051111-6.html

"It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait."

- Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary

Sen. Kennedy On Iraq

Sen. Kennedy Said Saddam Hussein Was Developing WMDs: "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." (Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Remarks At The Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., 9/27/02)

Sen. Kennedy: "Saddam Hussein Is A Dangerous Figure. He's Got Dangerous Weapons." (CBS' "Face The Nation," 10/6/02)

Sen. Kennedy Now Says The President Manipulated Facts About Iraq's WMDs: "'Instead of providing open and honest answers about how we will achieve success in Iraq and allow our troops to begin to come home,' Kennedy said, 'the president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never should have fought.'" (Deb Riechmann, "Bush Forcefully Attacks Critics Of The War In Iraq," Associated Press, 11/11/05)

Sen. Kennedy Opposed Removing Saddam Hussein From Kuwait. (S.J.Res.2, CQ Vote #2: Adopted 52-47: R 42-2; D 10-45, 1/12/91, Kennedy Voted Nay)

Sen. Kennedy Opposed Removing Saddam Hussein From Power. (H. J. Res. 114, CQ Vote #237: Passed 77-23: R 48- 1; D 29-21; I 0-1, 10/11/02, Kennedy Voted Nay)

[ck4829]

1. The TRUE (and ugly BTW) face of the Bush Administration has been revealed

[malaise]

8. Desperation time

Poor Scotty -Bushie must have given him a tongue lashing for that little slip of the tongue yesterday.

[Catfight]

2. Don't forget there would be 2060 soldiers alive, many more not maimed

and many innocent Iraqi's alive as well Scottybutthead. I think I prefer the Kennedy version of ONE NON-THREATING doodoo head compared to all the dead and innocent bloodshed for Mr. Bush's hubris. The thing is, Iraqi will still be oppressed as will many other territories and the dead will still be DEAD. It is regrettable that Scotty was ever born to be the echo of a madman.

[SammyBlue]

3. Scotty doesn't know. . .Scotty doesn't know. Don't tell Scotty

Cause Scotty doesn't know. Scotty doesn't know. Scotty doesn't know.

All I can think of is Eurotrip.

[fooj]

4. Hmmm...

Did Scottie McDick have a press conference today?

Apparently they don't care about blatant propaganda. Just one more thing to add to their growing list...

:smoke:

Peace.

[DearAbby]

5. This isn't the only time this had happened this week Scotty

Used the Press podium to state that the Democratic Party is a Party of no new Ideas...the new RW talking point. Since when has this ever happened?

So I am not surprised that they would take the low road on this matter. Nothing new folks

The Dem leaders should come out loud and clear on this bullshit.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. We used to play chinese soccer when I was a kid.

We all got down on the floor and kicked around a gigantic fat ball from kid to kid. That's what Scotty's press conferences have reminded me of lately. All the press "kids" kicking fat Scotty around the gymnasium. I'm afraid that both his decorum and his credibility have gone down the tubes.

[54anickel]

7. Let's e-mail Snotty and thank him for this. It's wonderful. Why yes,

Senator Kennedy (along with many others) certainly was mislead as demonstrated in the quote from 10/6/02 on "Face the Nation as he reiterated what was "spewed" during those initial discussions on the hill.

The to give a direct quote of Senator Kennedy's very strong, and damning statement. Why thanks Scotty. It cannot be repeated enough.

From the obvious quagmire our nation now finds itself in, Sen Kennedy's vote on 10/11/02 seems almost clairvoyant or something.

Oh, and Scotty, WTF does the '91 vote have to do with anything? By all means, let's look into that entire Kuwait mess, how Poppy's people did the old wink, wink, nudge, nudge, "we'll look the other way", "of course you can protect your resources if they are angle drilling" crap-o-la. Please, yes Scotty - let's all take a closer look at the history between BFEE and Saddam.

[harlinchi]

9. Now Scotty is on the record though.

He characterized Kennedy's comments as baseless and false. He can't claim, later on, that he was just repeating the assurances of others. Those words will be difficult to 'redefine' later on, when the facts at issue in Kennedy's comments become more commonly known to be true, not false, and as having a base founded in reality and unable to be thought of or spoken of as baseless.

'Course this is just Scotty; who cares when bigger game are sought?

[Rose Siding]

10. "Than", scottie, not "then"

"...has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein."

:eyes:

And if we checked, I'll bet bush has assailed Democrats with far more frequency than Saddam, as well.

[spindrifter]

11. I can't believe that the electronic portal

to the WH is being abused by the Press Secy. in this way. I can't believe he would commandeer it to cast aspersions on the opinions of the senior Senator from the great state of Massachusetts.

[peacetalksforall]

12. Well, I think Scotty exaggerated about Kuwait, but I think the rest of the

statement sounds pretty A-OK with me.

".... If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait"

I'd like to see Hussein still in power and reverse all the deaths, dismemberments, the loss of sanity and immune systems, the destruction of the infrastructures, homes, antiquities, billions in dollars., and petrel fuel that has gone up in flames.

Yes, I'd like to see the Fallujans with their skin back on and their hearts beating. I'd like to know that we never tormented and tortured Iraqis and Moslem's in a black geographical prison system.

We are criminals because we let criminals lead us and steal from us.

What Taliban leader was 'found' in a shaft? Which Saudi citizens had their families and homes destroyed and their legs blown away or which ones were gassed?

We went after Iraq so Rumsfeld didn't have to fight in the mountains since there had to be a war and Iraq was strategic to profit and Israel. And we must have a new enemy to taunt our citizens so that they obey the leaders and acquiesce to new laws and executive orders which strip rights from us.