Kerry calls for Rummy's resignation (MSNBC)...n/t

[pinto]

[maddezmom]

1. link?

[pinto]

3. just a quick blurb from the newscaster, w/ticker line on screen. Looking.

[maddezmom]

8. Kerry Says He Would Demand Accountability

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20040506/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_prisoner_abuse

and another
Kerry Hits Bush's Commander-In-Chief Performance

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=696&e=1&u=/nm/20040506/pl_nm/campaign_kerry_dc

But can't find any on resignation directly.

[maddezmom]

13. perhaps they are just reading google

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Bush: Rumsfeld 'Will Stay in My Cabinet'
Picayune Item, MS - 3 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.". Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts ...


Bush Won't Fire Rumsfeld
WAVE, KY - 4 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.". Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts ...


Bush: Rumsfeld 'Will Stay in My Cabinet'
Fredericksburg.com, VA - 14 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.". Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts ...


Bush won't fire Rumsfeld despite sharp fire from Congress
Boston Globe, MA - 14 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.''. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts


but if they read the article, the quote is from Tom Harkin not JK.

[pinto]

18. got you. I saw Harkin statements earlier today, too....n/t

[pinto]

20. 4 what its worth, they keep repeating it....? if true, a good push from JK

[maddezmom]

23. CNNI just reported, that John Kerry thinks rumsfeld should quit

but still can't find anything....

[maddezmom]

29. "Kerry Says He Would Demand Accountability"...now includes resignation

guess they were holding back

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. And the calls continue

I give rummy a week, maybe two

[Skittles]

6. that bastard will hang on by his fingernails

and you know he's higher on the food chain that Bush.

[jobycom]

9. It'll be over by then.

It's the next few days, or it won't happen.

[icymist]

4. I just hear the same on CNN.

Sorry, no link yet.

[happynewyear]

5. and I call for Rummy's impeachment

after that try Rummy for the war crimes and then, imprison him for life!

Give him a hood so HE DOESN'T FORGET! We will not forget!

[jobycom]

7. To quote Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham

Oh my.

That's bold. It's one thing for long-time incumbants to do it, but Kerry has a lot to lose.

Can't wait to see if he said "Rumsfield should resign," or if he qualified it, like "Rumsfield shoud resign if it is proven that..."

[guajira]

10. Kerry Should Stay out of that and Call for B*'s Resignation!

B* is responsible for what is happening in Iraq - he is the "cheerleader" who promotes the Iraq invasion for oil. B* is responsible for the deaths and torture that occurs there on a daily basis!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Kerry is a US Senator

Due to procedural matters, he CAN'T.

Count on Charlie Rangel to do such though, HE DID TODAY

[maddezmom]

15. bet it dissappears from the ticker soon...it was Harkin not JK

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Bush: Rumsfeld 'Will Stay in My Cabinet'
Picayune Item, MS - 3 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.". Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts ...


Bush Won't Fire Rumsfeld
WAVE, KY - 4 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.". Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts ...


Bush: Rumsfeld 'Will Stay in My Cabinet'
Fredericksburg.com, VA - 14 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.". Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts ...


Bush won't fire Rumsfeld despite sharp fire from Congress
Boston Globe, MA - 14 minutes ago
... our image around the globe Secretary Rumsfeld should resign. If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.''. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts

[pinto]

14. disagree, guajira, think it's a good, appropriate shot at this mal-admin.

[StandUpGuy]

22. I agree he sould stay out of it. because...

I wouldn't want one of these criminals to take the fall for the whole gang.
Asking for one or another resignation plays into a limited culpability scenario.
Kerry should push a clean sweep agenda and hit each member of the cabinet hard. Attack the records. Name names. Everyone is culpable.
But unfortunately that includes the democratic leadership so I’m sure he'll stick to the script that limits the damage all around.

[newyawker99]

30. Hi StandUpGuy!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Tellurian]

27. I disagree...Kerry has to define what he would do as President...

in the same situation...In this yahoo article Kerry waxed the perfect tone":

BOLTON, Calif. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday if he were president he would not be "the last to know what is going on in my command," a criticism of the Bush administration's handling of reports of abuse of prisoners held by U.S. forces in Iraq.

...yes, yes, yes!

"These despicable actions have endangered the lives of our soldiers and, frankly, have made their mission harder to accomplish," Kerry said during a campaign appearance at a California high school. "We cannot succeed in Iraq by abandoning the values that define America."

...exactly..


White House aides have said the president was not told about photos showing prisoners being abused before they were aired on television or about a Pentagon report issued in March before it turned up in the news.

...yeah, well we'll see about that...a little hard to believe!

Kerry said:

"As president, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command," Kerry said. "I will demand accountability for those who serve and I will take responsibility for their actions. And I will do everything that I can in my power to repair the damage that this has caused to America to our standing in the world and to the ideals for which we stand."

[not systems]

12. Yes! He should call for Wolfowitz's also.

Then an international inquiry and trial.

[Cocoa]

16. he has suggested this before

last summer, I think, regarding planning for the war.

[Claire Beth]

17. yesssss!!!!!! n/t

[Drifter]

19. But ... But ... But ...

Who will run the Quagmire ?

Cheers
Drifter

[pinto]

21. sorry, folks, looks like it was a stretch release on MSNBC, waffling now.

Happened to walk by the TV and heard the initial blurb, went allright!...this stuff has got me worked up, to say the least.

[maddezmom]

24. CNNI just reported, that John Kerry thinks rumsfeld should "quit"

sounds like JK is staying away from the resignation word. But the meaning is the same...rummy needs to go.

[pinto]

26. an extraordinarily dangerous man.

[maddezmom]

25. John Kerry does call for Rummy's resignation

Kerry also renewed his call for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation. The Massachusetts senator, who called for Rumsfeld to step down months ago over his handling of the Iraq war, said the abuse reports compound the situation.

"It's the way it was handled. The lack of information to the Congress, the lack of information to the country, not managing it, not dealing with it, recognizing it as an issue. But look this is, this is the frosting," Kerry said. "I think Iraq and the miscalculation and the overextension of the armed forces and the entire way in which they rushed the nation to war under these assumptions that he was making - which were incorrect - is a huge, historic miscalculation and I thought he should have resigned then."

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/politics/8605035.htm

:wow:

[pinto]

28. kick, thanks maddezmom.