Cleland to Bush campaign: Put up or shut up.

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Just heard on NPR: former Georgia Senator Max Cleland, triple-amputee from the Vietnam war - who lost his Senate seat after Republican TV commercials attacked his patriotism when he voted against the Iraq war - will deliver a letter co-signed by other Senate Democrats/Vietnam veterans, requesting that the president either condemn the refuted "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" campaign or admit that his campaign has had something to do with it. (An attorney for the Bush campaign is also acting as legal advisor to the Swift Boat campaign, and there have been other alleged connections.)

 

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The attorney just resigned -

Here's a link -

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/st...ff/story/0001/20040825/1601080662.htm&sc=1131

It's truly incredible. Two people in Bush's camp have already been associated with those ads - makes me wonder how many more will surface?

 

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What a splendid TV moment that was.

Karl Rove couldn't have done it better.

When I heard the radio story, I missed the best part: the arrival of the motorcade at the ranch in Crawford, where the wheelchair-bound Cleland wheeled himself up to the gate and was refused the right to give the letter to the president.

Heehee.

"Who's that poor man, Edgar? And why won't the president come out and say hello?"

Sometimes, even when you know you won't win, it feels good to have justice on your side. It looked shocking, because it is shocking. These people tried to destroy Cleland and nearly succeeded. He went into a spiral of depression when he was accused of lacking patriotism, and he's come out of it now, ready to fight these bastards.

Take no prisoners, Max Cleland. Make these hypocrites sorry they labeled you a coward.

As for McCain, he's the next Vice President. I know it in my stomach, and it sickens me to think he'll sell his soul like Colin Powell did, particularly after what Bush did to him during the 2000 primaries.