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President Bush growing a back bone?

Hmmmm — might be a bit little too late, but I’ll take it

At a White House news conference Thursday, President Bush took the opportunity to drop a political bomb on Democrats, saying they are more afraid of riling extreme wings of their party than of riling the U.S. military.

The president was responding to a question about an advertisement run last week by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, which suggested Multinational Forces in Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus was falsifying information about the war, under a bold headline, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?”

“I thought the ad was disgusting,” Bush told reporters in the White House briefing room Thursday.

“I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad, and that leads me to come to this kind of conclusion: That most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org — are more afraid of irritating them — than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal,” the president said.

“And (it’s) one thing to attack me. It’s another thing to attack somebody like Gen. Petraeus,” Bush said.

“Bush Says Democrats Afraid of Left-Wing Groups” – via Fox News (probably the only place that you’ll find it too!)