karl rove sucks.

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From: John Kerry  
Date: Jun 24, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: Dividers, Not Uniters
To: kerry Æ lisazapato.com


 
 
 
 
 

Dear Lisa, 

Just hours after learning about an outrageous speech delivered by Karl
Rove, President Bush's most senior advisor, I went to the Senate floor
-- and I spoke from my heart. I want to share those words with you --
not as a Democrat or Republican, not as a liberal or conservative --
but as an American.

 I've attached part of my speech to the end of this email. But, before
you read what I said, look again at what Karl Rove said:
 (P)erhaps the most important difference between conservatives and
liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives
saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war;
liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare
indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

I hope you will join me right now in signing an open letter to the
President urging him to thoroughly reject Karl Rove's purposeful
attack on the patriotism of those who dare ask the tough questions
that best protect American troops. Sign our open letter to President
Bush now:

http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php 

 This isn't the first time that Karl Rove and other White House
officials have sought to divide America in ways that make it harder to
keep our country safe and our democracy strong. But, it should be the
last. That's why I ended my speech with a call on President Bush to
fire Karl Rove. It is the only way the President can make it clear
that he rejects Rove's effort to distort one of the most unified and
patriotic moments in American history into a cheap, divisive,
political applause line.

That, of course, is what is most outrageous about Karl Rove's claim
that President Bush's political opponents offered "therapy and
understanding for our attackers." It isn't true. In the days after
9/11, there were no Democrats, no Republicans. We were all Americans,
standing together. President Bush acknowledged that unity in a clear
and compelling way at the time.

Now, Karl Rove is purposely twisting those days of unity in order to
divide us for political gain. I hope you will act right now to join a
growing chorus of Americans calling on the President to fire Karl
Rove.

http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php 

Please act right now. Sign our open letter to the President and pass
it on to others. All Americans have to speak with one powerful voice
in response to this outrage. I will continue speaking out and I know I
can count on you to stand with me.

Sincerely, 

John Kerry ________________________________
 Make America Safe, Not Divided 
 Excerpts of remarks by Senator John Kerry on the Senate floor on
Thursday, June 23.

 "None of us here will ever forget the hours after September 11... and
the remarkable response of the American people as we came together as
one to answer the attack on our homeland.... [I]t brought out the best
of all of us in America.

That spirit of our country should never be reduced to a cheap,
divisive political applause line from anyone who speaks for the
President of the United States.

I am proud, as my colleagues on this side are, that after September
11, all of the people of this country rallied to President Bush's call
for unity to meet the danger. There were no Democrats, there were no
Republicans, there were only Americans. That is why it is really hard
to believe that last night in New York... the most senior adviser to
the President of the United States [was] purposely twisting those days
of unity in order to divide us for political gain.

Rather than focusing attention on Osama bin Laden and finding him or
rather than focusing attention on just smashing al-Qaida and uniting
our effort, as we have been, he is, instead, challenging the
patriotism of every American who is every bit as committed to fighting
terror as is he.

Just days after 9/11, the Senate voted 98 to nothing, and the House
voted 420 to 1, to authorize President Bush to use all necessary and
appropriate force against terror. And after the bipartisan vote,
President Bush said: "I'm gratified that the Congress has united so
powerfully by taking this action. It sends a clear message. Our people
are together and we will prevail."

That is not the message that was sent by Karl Rove in New York City
last night. Last night, he said: "No more needs to be said about"
their "motives."

I think a lot more needs to be said about Karl Rove's motives because
they are not the people's motives... They are not the motives of a
nation that found unity in that critical moment--Democrat and
Republican alike, all of us as Americans.

If the President really believes his own words, if those words have
meaning, he should at the very least expect a public apology from Karl
Rove. And frankly, he ought to fire him. If the President of the
United States knows the meaning of those words, then he ought to
listen to the plea of Kristen Breitweiser, who lost her husband when
the Twin Towers came crashing down. She said: "If you are going to use
9/11, use it to make this nation safer than it was on 9/11."

Karl Rove doesn't owe me an apology and he doesn't owe Democrats an
apology. He owes the country an apology. He owes Kristen Breitweiser
and a lot of people like her, those families, an apology. He owes an
apology to every one of those families who paid the ultimate price on
9/11 and expect their government to be doing all possible to keep the
unity of their country and to fight an effective war on terror.

The fact is, millions of Americans...are asking Washington for
honesty, for results, and for leadership--not for political division.
Before Karl Rove delivers another political assault, he ought to stop
and think about those families and the unity of 9/11.
 
 
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