Newsweek is trippin.

Dem hammers Bush response to White House story; Finds 'irony' in comments about loss of life

RAW STORY

Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) has issued a sharply worded letter to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan over the Administration's response to a Newsweek article, RAW STORY has learned.

Conyers raps the Administration for the demand that Newsweek retract their report, saying it "smacks of political exploitation of the deaths of innocent and a shameless attempt to intimidate reporters from critically investigating your Administration's actions."

He also says he finds it ironic that the Bush Administration is calling Newsweek to task for any loss of life based on reporting.

There is, Conyers said, "a sad irony in this White House claiming that someone else's errors or misjudgments led to the loss of innocent lives. Over 1,600 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives in the Iraq war, a war which your Administration justified by falsely claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."

The U.S. has vehemently attacked the Newsweek report.

"It's appalling that this story got out there," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice remarked to reporters on her trip back from Iraq.

--Note...She said 'Appalling,...Not, 'untrue'.--

"People are dead," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters in Washington Monday. "People need to be very careful about what they say, just as they need to be careful about what they do."

Conyers' letter follows. Link in headliner.

---Hey Rummy, careful like WMD intell careful?..ORRRR like smart-napalm bombs in Fallujah careful ?...Your a punk.---