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To: LindyBill who wrote (42825)	5/7/2004 11:27:37 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793721

Hewitt - There is a report that in a Today Show appearance this morning, Slow Joe Biden called for Secretary Rumsfeld to resign as a result of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Nothing would surprise me when it comes to the attention-starved, dense-as-cement statesman from Delaware, but the feeding frenzy underway among grandstanding Dems and their allies in the media is appalling. Rogue soldiers, whose actions have been widely and instantly condemned by every senior official who has been asked to comment, are now being used by enemies of the president to attack the president. Believe it or not, a CNN newsbabe this morning actually said "What did the president know and when did he know it?" As though there was a cover-up of some sort, instead of a rapid and uniform condemnation of the brutality at issue. The inability of Democrats and their fans in the media to put the country's interest ahead of their own ambitions to defeat the president did not stop the "Bush knew" nuttiness of two years ago, the Halliburton rhetoric that continues to this day, the braying of "betrayal" by Al Gore, the peddling of "the Saudis warned him" by Dean, the recurring paranoia of Kerry, or the politicization of the 9/11 Commission, so it was to be expected that a genuine crisis in the war would be seized on as just more political fodder by the left. As usual, however, they have overplayed their hand. Americans know George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and all the generals, colonels, other officers and enlisted men and women serving on the front line, and they know that the criminal actions of a handful of rogue soldiers do not represent anyone or anything about the U.S. This latest episode of hyperpartisanship applied to the war will repel, not attract voters, though the damage it will do to America and to the troops fighting the war on terror will be immense, and should not be forgotten.