Bush Lashes Back at Kennedy's Criticism About War in Iraq

Now President Bush has joined in with Rumsfeld, Fleischer and Ashcroft admonishing Americans to be careful of the words they use.

"I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game," Bush said in the interview that will air Monday night. "But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people say - use words that they shouldn't be using."

Yet that is exactly what Senator Kennedy did--picked apart the President's policies, it was a critique--when he said:

"It didn't have to be this way," he said. "We wouldn't have to be providing these billions of dollars to these countries to ... coerce them or bribe them to send their troops in, if we'd done it the right way, if we'd gone to the United Nations, if we had built an international constituency."

Of course, the media will present the President's comments as a 'soundbite' and only mention, in passing, that Kennedy was criticizing Bush.

And now the President of the United States of America is now on record for 'chilling' free speech.

This is your media. This is your country.