Menendez says Kean would be "rubber stamp" for Bush
2006-09-20
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rss feedU.S. Sen. Robert Menendez returned his focus to the Iraq war Monday, campaigning with outspoken war critic Joseph Wilson and touting his 2002 vote against the invasion while saying his Republican opponent, state Sen. Thomas Kean Jr., would be a "rubber stamp" for President Bush's administration.
Menendez, D-N.J., made campaign stops in Hoboken and at a rally at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus on the same day Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, came to New York to raise campaign money for Kean, who has attempted to distance himself from the president and Bush's low poll numbers.
Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador whose attempt to discredit one of Bush's most dire pre-war assertions on Iraq's weapons program has become a controversial flashpoint in the war debate, said the U.S. military should not be used for "wars of choice."
"Six years of of unaccountable government is enough," Wilson said, standing on the Hoboken waterfront. "I have offered my time and my support to Democrats seeking to gain seats in the U.S. Congress expressly because I believe we need to hold this administration to account for its actions."
Kean spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker dismissed Wilson as a "discredited media joke."
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