Bush's Campaign Emphasizes * Role of Leader in War -will media buy it?

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/politics/campaign/17CAMP.html?hp

March 17, 2004
Bush's Campaign Emphasizes Role of Leader in War
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ADAM NAGOURNEY

WASHINGTON, March 16 — A year after ordering the invasion of Iraq, President Bush is moving the war to the forefront of his re-election effort with a weeklong barrage of speeches, an orchestrated set of interviews with senior Pentagon officials and a new television advertisement questioning Senator John Kerry's support of the troops.

Mr. Bush's advisers said Tuesday that the president intended to press his case that the world was safer with Saddam Hussein out of power, and to use the first anniversary, on Friday, of the war's start to draw sharp contrasts with Mr. Kerry over foreign policy and leadership.

The moves were part of what aides described as a new chapter in the political campaign against Mr. Kerry. But they came as the bombings in Spain stirred more criticism of Mr. Bush's Iraq policy, underlining the extent to which the campaign had become subject to the unpredictability of overseas events, and pointing up the complications Mr. Bush faces in trying to balance the demands of the presidency with a re-election effort. <snip>

At a campaign appearance in West Virginia, Mr. Kerry shot back at Mr. Bush, caustically challenging his credibility on an array of fronts.

"Nothing is more important than telling the American people the truth about the economy, health care, and war and peace," Mr. Kerry told veterans on Tuesday, the day he won the Illinois primary. "This administration has yet to level with the American people."<snip>

Mr. Kerry added, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," referring to an amendment he supported that would have rescinded some tax cuts to finance the war.<snip>

The Pentagon threw open its doors to local radio talk show hosts on Tuesday and made available to them Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, generals and other military and civilian officials. <snip>

[grannylib]

1. Leader TO war, maybe...not IN war, little chickenhawk. Let him try.

Kerry would mop the floor with him, and if by chance the General were to be Kerry's running mate, well, then....
I think Kerry needs to wait until the PNAC-puppets reveal more of their attack 'strategery' so he can best choose a VP that can help him demolish the Empire these neo-con artists are trying to create.

[jean]

2. Iraq occupation...not a war. When will Bush start the War on Terror?

[Turbineguy]

3. Bush is is like that brilliant Military Strategist from the past

Adolf Hitler

[cosmicdot]

4. will they buy it? they've already been selling it ...

during Prince Valiant's chat with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (another friendly audience) yesterday ... it wasn't a March to War which cable/network cooperatively posted on TV screens 24/7 ... no, the Bushiter says it was a March to Peace ...

We marched to war, which affected the economy. It's hard to be confident about the future when you look on your TV screens, and you see the banner, "March to War". As decision-makers and entrepreneurs, it had to be an unsettling time to plan for the future, when you've got a country marching to war. And now we're marching to peace. We're marching to peace. A free Iraq is going to help change the world. A free Afghanistan is changing the world. The world is becoming more peaceful. In other words, we've overcome a lot.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040316-5.html

[prodigal_green]

6. Jon Stewart

Skewered this when he originally said it last year. "I wonder why they would be saying 'March to War?' Maybe because you're marching us to war?"

What an ass.

Remember, he's a war president, which is a world away from being a war-time president.

[boobooday]

5. Bush is a leader- A WARTIME PRESIDENT- Churchillian

I just got a chillian. NOT. Using secret X-Ray technology, we looked inside his head, and saw very little, but there was this one short burst of neural activity:



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