Bunnypants concerned taunts may affect his poll numbers
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN PIMP: John, back to Iraq for just a moment, if we could. Today's grenade attack against U.S. soldiers in Baghdad is exactly the kind of attack the president was addressing yesterday. Any reaction at this point from the administration?
JOHN KING, CNN WHORESSPONDENT: No reaction directly to this latest attack, except for White House officials who say that they expect this to happen in a dangerous place. There is discussion behind the scenes here at the White House about the political fallout from the president's remarks yesterday, the president saying, "Bring 'em on." That was his attitude to those who want to attack U.S. forces.
Aides insisting what the president meant was that he would not be scared out of Iraq, that he would not be rushed out of Iraq before the job is done by factions trying to attack U.S. troops. But some here say perhaps he could have chosen better words.
They're not so much worried about the Democratic criticism that the president's rhetoric is macho and that he is essentially taunting or daring the enemy to attack U.S. troops. What they are concerned most about is that if some American is killed over today, tomorrow or in the next few days that the parent of that troop coming home dead might wonder what the president meant. - - link.
July 3, 2003
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