Bush again using 'comma' comment----like a slap in the face to dead troops

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301391.html

Stepping Up Attacks, Bush Calls Democrats 'Softer' on Terrorists

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 4, 2006; Page A04

STOCKTON, Calif., Oct. 3 -- President Bush ratcheted up his campaign offensive against Democrats on Tuesday with perhaps his bluntest rhetoric yet as he accused them of being "softer" on terrorists and willing to allow attacks on Americans rather than interrogate or spy on the nation's enemies.

With his party in serious trouble five weeks before Election Day, Bush shifted into full campaign mode this week, kicking off a month of frenetic barnstorming aimed at drawing disgruntled Republicans back into the fold. As part of the effort, he has escalated the intensity of his attacks with each passing day, culminating with what aides called a "very aggressive" series of speeches Tuesday.

"Time and time again, the Democrats want to have it both ways," he told donors here. "They talk tough on terror, but when the votes are counted, their softer side comes out."

He added: "If you don't think we should be listening in on the terrorist, then you ought to vote for the Democrats. If you want your government to continue listening in when al-Qaeda planners are making phone calls into the United States, then you vote Republican."

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1. The Money quote

"Bush again remarked that it seems "like an eternity" since December elections in Iraq but predicted that "when this chapter of history will be written . . . it's going to be a comma -- the Iraqis voted, comma, and the United States of America understood that Iraq was a central front in the war on terror and helped this young democracy flourish." Democrats have complained that the comment dismisses thousands of American deaths as "a comma.""

[AndyA]

2. Mr. Bush, someone obviously needs to remind you - AGAIN - that

9/11 happened on YOUR WATCH.

Not Clinton's, YOURS. YOU dropped the ball. YOU ignored the memos, the evidence, and the danger. YOU allowed thousands of innocent Americans to perish.

YOU, Mr. Bush, were on VACATION in the weeks leading up to the 9/11 attack. Don't you think any REASONABLE person would have expected you and your administration to be doing SOMETHING at this point?

You should also be directed to the recent reports that state the war in Iraq is FUELING terrorism, and making it LESS SAFE here at home.

If anything, evidence, history, and facts show that the Republic is the party soft on terror, not the Democratic Party.