Lott to McDermott: Shut Up and Come Home
Sunday Sept. 29, 2002; 7:48 p.m. EDT
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Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., angrily blasted Congressman Jim McDermott, D-Wash., Sunday afternoon after the left-wing Democrat predicted that President Bush would lie to get the U.S. into a war with Iraq during an interview he conducted earlier in the day from Baghdad.
"He needs to come home and keep his mouth shut," Lott told reporters.
"For him to be in Baghdad, the center of one of the most dangerous dictators in the world with all kinds weapons of mass destruction, to be questioning the veracity of our own American president is the heighth of irresponsibility."
Earlier in the day, McDermott, who is on a so-called peace mission with Rep. David Bonior, was asked about his previous statement that he thought Bush would lie to start a war.
"I think the president would mislead the American people," McDermott told ABC's "This Week" from Baghdad. "I believe that sometimes they give out misinformation. Lyndon Johnson did it in the Vietnam War."
Before he went to Iraq McDermott told NBC's "Today Show," "The President of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war." |
