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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (687078)	6/24/2005 12:25:05 PM
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"George Soros, Michael Moore, MoveOn and the hard left were wrong after 9/11, just as it was wrong for Democrat leaders to stand by and remain silent after Dick Durbin made his deplorable comments," Mr. Mehlman said. Other Republicans, including some who had criticized Mr. Durbin, defended Mr. Rove, saying he was merely "telling it like it is." "I know that the Democratic leadership at this point is offering no ideas and no vision for the American people, but Karl was simply pointing out the different philosophies and different approaches when it comes to winning the war on terrorism," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan. Vice President Dick Cheney suggested that Mr. Rove was referring to liberal Democrats who opposed the U.S. war against Afghanistan. He said Mr. Rove was making a "distinction" between two responses to terrorism. "One is sort of a crime-solving approach, a law-enforcement approach," he told CNN. "And the other is a national strategy, military intelligence, wartime approach." White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. also defended the remarks, saying they "reflected some of the rhetoric that a lot of people feel." "There is a difference of opinion on how some people respond to those kinds of terror attacks," he said on CNN. "And there has been a long history where some have said our response should be more of an investigative, prosecutorial response than one of taking the fight to the enemy." Mr. Rove was not the first White House official to ridicule the notion of offering "therapy" to terrorists. Mr. Bush repeatedly made the point while running for re-election last year, although he did not specifically blame liberals. "You can't reason with these people," the president said of terrorists. "There's no need to negotiate with them. Therapy's not going to work." Democrats, though, said Mr. Rove's rhetoric was even at odds with Mr. Bush, who said immediately after the attacks and after Congress approved going to war in Afghanistan that the nation is united. Of the six Democrats who signed a letter calling for an apology, five of them voted for the war in Afghanistan, and four voted to authorize war in Iraq. Mr. Corzine voted against the war in Iraq, and Mr. Lautenberg was not in the Senate at the time of either vote. • Bill Sammon contributed to this report.