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Sen. John Kerry said on Thursday that if the Democrats retake the House, there’s a "solid case” to impeach President Bush on a charge that he misled the country about pre-war intelligence.

Speaking to about 100 veterans of his 2004 White House campaign at Finn McCool’s bar in Washington, Kerry praised Democrats who were working on Senate and House campaigns.

Then he said: "If we take back the House, there a solid case to bring articles of impeachment against this president,” according to one listener who spoke to the National Journal’s Web site The Hotline.

Several members of the audience reported that Kerry quickly added: "Don’t tell anyone I said that.”

The Massachusetts Senator’s communications director, David Wade, tried to downplay the remarks, saying Kerry was "joking.”

He told The Hotline: "Is it really a story that, with a smile on his face and to ensuing laughter, at a Christmas party for his hardest-working troops who are still working to win in 2006, a Democrat joked about why these die hard Democrats needed to keep dreaming of a Democratic Congress?

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"Impeachment jokes in Washington are as old as Donald Rumsfeld and as funny as Dick Cheney is gruff.”

Wade said Kerry often asks this question: "How are the same Republicans who tried to impeach a president over whether he misled a nation about an affair going to pretend it does not matter if the administration intentionally misled the country into war?”

But several Democrats in Kerry’s audience said his remarks made them uncomfortable. While many might favor impeachment, Democratic strategists "do not want the party to appear hyper-partisan, especially when Congressional approval ratings struggle to reach 30 percent,” according to The Hotline.

Many party insiders believe the country wouldn’t want a second impeachment trial in 10 years, while others feel Bush does not deserve to be impeached.

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