Hi Westi....Did you see any of the Senile Senator Byrd's comments about President Bush today....? I will call the Senator's offices here in this State tomorrow (they are both Dem) and tell whoever takes my call my thoughts. I will actively work to support every Republican that makes sense Nationally .... If the Democrats think Byrd speaks for them, and they let him continue saying such terrible things, then that says plenty about them and the Democrat party....
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Sen. Robert Byrd questions motives behind Bush speech
By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (May 6, 3:44 p.m. PDT) - Questioning the motives of a "desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior," Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd on Tuesday reproached President Bush for flying onto an aircraft carrier last week to declare an end of major fighting in Iraq.
"I am loath to think of an aircraft carrier being used as an advertising backdrop for a presidential political slogan, and yet that is what I saw," Byrd said on the Senate floor.
Byrd, 85, of West Virginia, is the Senate's most senior member and was one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq war.
Dressed in a flight suit, Bush was flown onto the USS Abraham Lincoln on Thursday, his small S-3B Viking jet making a tailhook landing. The ship was near San Diego on its return from action in the Persian Gulf.
With the sea as his backdrop, Bush announced that the United States and its allies had prevailed against Saddam Hussein.
Byrd contrasted the speech with the "simple dignity" of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address during the Civil War.
"I do not begrudge his salute to America's warriors aboard the carrier Lincoln, for they have performed bravely, ... but I do question the motives of a desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech," he said.
He said American blood has been shed defending Bush's policies. "This is not some made-for-TV backdrop for a campaign commercial," he said.
"To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the president to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech," he said.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer has rejected any suggestion that the landing was intended to provide campaign footage for Bush's re-election campaign.
On Tuesday, before Byrd's speech, Fleischer said Bush wanted "to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing. He wanted to see it as realistically as possible." |
