WTF Is It Now?!?

Democrats urged to challenge Bush's lies "credibility"
Failure to find weapons in Iraq may be election issue.

From here, mostly:

Since the Dems in Washington have totally abrogated any responsibility, some Democratic party officials are urging the presidential candidates to aggressively take the misadministration to task for failing to find chemical or biological weapons in the seven weeks since the resident declared an end to major combat in Iraq.

Although the issue should not become overtly politicized, the party leaders said, the lingering uncertainty over the justification for war in Iraq poses legitimate and larger questions about the credibility of the Bush Cartel.

"If the president had an Achilles' heel, up until a week ago it was the economy," said Mike Erlandson, the chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. "But what potentially is a bigger Achilles' heel than the economy and the loss of jobs, and a surplus that's turned into a deficit, is the issue of weapons of mass destruction."

As Democratic leaders from more than 40 states gathered this weekend to discuss the 2004 campaign, several state party officials said that the presidential contenders should drop their reluctance to challenge Bunnypants over yet-to-be-found weapons in Iraq that were used as the administration's chief argument for war. The issue is growing more important by the day, they said, as the number of U.S. casualties rises in Iraq and the outlook for building a new government remains uncertain.

"Our children are still dying there. As long as you got one kid on that soil, you've still got a war," said Tina Abbott, the vice chairwoman of the Michigan Democratic Party. "The weapons are an American question. It's not a Democrat or a Republican question."

"The issue has yet to be fully developed. It's taking on a head of steam just in the past few days," said Jim Pederson, chairman of the Arizona Democratic Party. "More and more people are going to be talking about it; more and more people are going to be questioning it. We need to know all the facts."


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