RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Statement On The Democrat Attacks Of Karl Rove

Republican National Committee ^ | June 23, 2005 | RNC

[seamus]

 "It’s outrageous that the same Democrats who stood by Dick Durbin’s libeling of our military are now expressing faux outrage over Karl Rove’s statement of historical fact.  George Soros, Michael Moore, MoveOn and the hard left were wrong after 9/11, just as it was wrong for Democrat leaders to stand by and remain silent after Dick Durbin made his deplorable comments.”

- RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman

Liberal Third Party Groups Urged Restraint, Blamed America:

 

Immediately After 9/11, MoveOn.Org Petition Urged “Moderation And Restraint” And Use Of “International Judicial Institutions.”

  • “We, The Undersigned, Citizens And Residents Of The United States Of America … Appeal To The President Of The United States, George W. Bush … And To All Leaders Internationally To Use Moderation And Restraint In Responding To The Recent Terrorist Attacks Against The United States.” (MoveOn.Org Website, “MoveOn Peace,” http://web.archive.org/web/20021127190638/peace.moveon.org/petition.php3, Posted 9/13/01, Accessed 6/23/05)

 

• “We Implore The Powers That Be To Use, Wherever Possible, International Judicial Institutions And International Human Rights Law To Bring To Justice Those Responsible For The Attacks, Rather Than The Instruments Of War, Violence Or Destruction.” (MoveOn.Org Website, “MoveOn Peace,” http://web.archive.org/web/20021127190638/peace.moveon.org/petition.php3, Posted 9/13/01, Accessed 6/23/05)

 

• “[W]e Demand That There Be No Recourse To Nuclear, Chemical Or Biological Weapons, Or Any Weapons Of Indiscriminate Destruction, And Feel That It Is Our Inalienable Human Right To Live In A World Free Of Such Arms.” (MoveOn.Org Website, “MoveOn Peace,” http://web.archive.org/web/20021127190638/peace.moveon.org/petition.php3, Posted 9/13/01, Accessed 6/23/05)

 

Just After 9/11, Liberal Filmmaker Michael Moore Derided “Terror And Bloodshed” Committed By Americans.  (David Brooks, Op-Ed, “All Hail Moore,” The New York Times, 6/26/04)

  • Just After 9/11, Moore Blamed America’s “Taxpayer-Funded Terrorism” And Bush Administration For Terrorist Attacks. “We abhor terrorism – unless we’re the ones doing the terrorizing. We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me.…Let’s mourn, let’s grieve, and when it’s appropriate let’s examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in.” (Michael Moore Website Archive, “Death, Downtown,” Posted 9/12/01, www.michaelmoore.com, Accessed 7/27/04)

 

• Michael Moore Said U.S. Should Not Have Removed Taliban After 9/11.  Moore:  “Likewise, to bomb Afghanistan – I mean, I’ve never understood this, Tim.” (CNBC’s “Tim Russert,” 10/19/02)

 

Liberal Donor George Soros Claimed America Should Have Treated 9/11 Attacks As Crime, Responded With Police Work.  “War is a false and misleading metaphor in the context of combating terrorism.  Treating the attacks of September 11 as crimes against humanity would have been more appropriate.  Crimes require police work, not military action.  To protect against terrorism, you need precautionary measures, awareness, and intelligence gathering – all of which ultimately depend on the support of the populations among which terrorists operate.  Imagine for a moment that September 11 had been treated as a crime.  We would have pursued Bin Laden in Afghanistan, but we would not have invaded Iraq.  Nor would we have our military struggling to perform police work in full combat gear and getting killed in the process.”  (George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy, 2004, p. 18) 

 

• Soros Said The Execution Of 9/11 Attacks “Could Not Have Been More Spectacular.”  “Admittedly, the terrorist attack was a historic event in its own right.  Hijacking fully loaded airplanes and using them as suicide bombs was an audacious idea, and the execution could not have been more spectacular.”  (George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy, 2004, p. 2)

 

• Soros Said War On Terror Had Claimed More Innocent Victims Than 9/11 Attack Itself. “This is a very tough thing to say, but the fact is, that the war on terror as conducted by this administration, has claimed more innocent victims that the original attack itself.” (George Soros, Remarks At Take Back America Conference, Washington, DC, 6/3/04)

 

Liberal Democrats Urged Restraint, Blamed America:

 

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH):  “‘The Time For Peace Is Now,’ [Kucinich] Declared Optimistically July 11, Two Months To The Day Before Terrorists Hit The Pentagon And The World Trade Center.  … Sitting In His Capitol Hill Office Last Week, Near A Window Where He Could See The Smoke Rising From The Pentagon On Sept. 11, Kucinich Insisted He Is More Optimistic Than Ever That People Worldwide Are Ready To Embrace The Cause Of Nonviolence.” (Elizabeth Auster, “Offer The Hand Of Peace,” [Cleveland, OH] Plain Dealer, 9/30/01)

  • Kucinich: “Afghanistan May Be An Incubator Of Terrorism But It Doesn’t Follow That We Bomb Afghanistan …” (Elizabeth Auster, “Offer The Hand Of Peace,” [Cleveland, OH] Plain Dealer, 9/30/01)

 

Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI): “Only Now Are We Trying To Figure Out What Is Islam. Maybe If There Was A Department Of Peace, They Would Be Able To Say, ‘Uh-Oh, We’ve Got Some Problems With These People,’ … I Truly Believe That If We Had A Department Of Peace, We Would Have Seen [9/11] Coming.” (Ethan Wallison, “War A Challenge For Peace Caucus,” Roll Call, 10/1/01)

 

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA): “I Am Convinced That Military Action Will Not Prevent Further Acts Of International Terrorism Against The United States.” (Eddy Ramirez, “Calif. Congresswoman Alone In Vote Against War Powers Resolution,” [University Of California-Berkeley] Daily Californian, 9/17/01)

 

Al Sharpton (D-NY) Said That The Attacks On The World Trade Center Are Evidence That “America Is Beginning To Reap What It Has Sown.”  (Adam Nagourney, “Say It Loud,” The New York Times, 12/1/02)

 

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) Claimed Osama Bin Laden Could Be Compared To “Revolutionaries That Helped To Cast Off The British Crown.” “‘One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown,’ Kaptur told an Ohio newspaper, The (Toledo) Blade.” (Malie Rulon, “Lawmaker Compares Osama, U.S. Patriots,” The Associated Press, 3/6/03)

 

Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) Said The United States Would “Pay Every Single Hour, Ever Single Day” That Bombs Were Dropped In Afghanistan. “‘How much longer does the bombing campaign continue?’ Biden asked during an Oct. 22 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. ‘We’re going to pay every single hour, every single day it continues.’” (Miles A. Pomper, "Building Anti-Terrorism Coalition Vaults Ahead Of Other Priorities," Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 10/26/01)

  • “The Bombing Campaign, [Biden] Said, Reinforced Existing Stereotypes Of The United States As A ‘High-Tech Bully …’” (Miles A. Pomper, "Building Anti-Terrorism Coalition Vaults Ahead Of Other Priorities," Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 10/26/01)

 

Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) Said Osama Bin Laden Not Guilty.  Dean: “I Still Have This Old-Fashioned Notion That Even With People Like Osama, Who Is Very Likely To Be Found Guilty, We Should Do Our Best Not To, In Positions Of Executive Power, Not To Prejudge Jury Trials.” (“Dean Not Ready To Pronounce Osama Bin Laden Guilty,” The Associated Press, 12/26/03)

 

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) To High School Students: “How Would [Muslims] Look At Us Today If We Had Been There Helping Them With Some Of That Rather Than Just Being The People Who Are Going To Bomb In Iraq And Go To Afghanistan? … War Is Expensive Too … Your Generation Ought To Be Thinking About Whether We Should Be Better Neighbors Out In Other Countries So That They Have A Different Vision Of Us.” (Gregg Herrington, “Senator Asks Students To Ponder,” The [Vancouver, WA] Columbian, 12/19/02)

 

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA): “[W]ar On Terror Is Far Less Of A Military Operation And Far More Of An Intelligence-Gathering, Law-Enforcement Operation.”  (The Iowa Brown & Black Coalition Presidential Forum, Des Moines, IA, 1/11/04)

  • Kerry: “[W]hat We’ve Learned Is That The War On Terror Is Much More Of An Intelligence Operation And A Law Enforcement Operation.” (NPR’s “All Things Considered,” 3/19/03)

 

 

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[Mach9]

Let's just hope someone got the full text to Pataki. He's an apologetic kinda guy.

[SevenMinusOne]

This is a very good piece put out by the RNC - Now they need to hit the airwaves full throttle in making sure everyday ordinary citizens remember what these "liberals" said!

It does no good if they only preach to the choir -

Though each of us can do our part by making sure we forward this message along via email to family, friends and co-workers.

The fact is the WH and the RNC have been pathetic over the past six months in defending our great success in the GWOT! - They have asked and demanded that our soldiers keep fighting 24/7.....Yet they have shown NO intensity in coming to their defense back here in the States and defending our military's enormous successes!

Simply sad to see how the WH and RNC have allowed the Democrats to reestablish a FALSE premise that Iraq is not succeeded.....When it is succeeded amazingly well in the big picture. Our soldiers deserve better out of the WH and RNC.

[GianniV]

Hillary - you should apologize for your obesity. You are sending the wrong message to the youth of America that it's okay to be overweight and not exercise.

Stop Obesity: Remove Hillary's Feeding Tube.

[seamus]

I just heard a clip of Pataki on Hannity's show where he basically tells Hillary to stick it. Stuff like: "When I hear her apologize for some of that stuff she said at her fundraiser, and for what Dick Durbin said, and for what Pelosi says, get back to me. Until then, go pound salt."

I know you must be just as surprised as I am, but he really did it. Tough (and funny) stuff. Looks like he's trying to re-establish his conservative bonafides. Too little, too late, I'm afraid.

[Echo Talon]

you dont like her cankles? :D

[Republican Red]

"Until then, go pound salt." Well heck, I just may have to send the GOP some money now. I told them when they start growing a spine I'd start sending money. Pataki just earned some respect from me.

[hattend]

How does one censure a person who is not a member of the Senate?

[roses of sharon]

The President expected after he won that he could talk about domestic issues to some extent, that people were asking him to do.

He obviously did not see a defamation campaign starting against him and our troops, by the Dems and their faux media.

[tarzantheapeman]

I like your tag line too. Do you know if Allen has started any exploratory committees or groups (or whatever) to look at a possible run in 2008?

[Fudd Fan]

I heard that clip from Pataki on Sean's show too. It was great, didn't sound like the Pataki we've come to know at all. Sounded to me like he's fed up with all the reindeer games.

[sofaman]

The DU'ers are just having a meltdown. The comments are quite extra-ordinary...some of are funny, some vicious, some idiotic...you judge:

"I know, thats the trouble. All we can do is show that Bush uses sleazy people of questionable morals (nicest way I can say it) to define his strategy."

" Don't let this psychopath get under your skin. Pelosi is exactly right. All this is an act of desperation. Rove's entire M.O. is to appeal to raw emotions so he can divide and conquer. After listening to some calls on C-SPAN this morning it is working among the extreme right. They are frothing at the mouth and regurgitating this ridiculous hatred. Why? Because they have nothing else. Everything they supported in this "war" is turning out to be a sham and they don't know what else to do. They have nothing left."

"Propaganda Minister Rove's favorite smear....Attack the "Patriotism" of the Democrats and those who question BushCo's motives and actions.Propaganda Minister Rove always pulls it out when they desperately need something or want to screw things up more. The truth will prevail."

"GO FOR THE THROAT! Make him bleed!"

"Rove is a White House Official. He is no longer running a political campaign. This sort of extreme partisanship and the desperate use of the events of 9-11 is despicable for a WH Official. So much for restoring respect and decency to the Oval Office."

"well ain't he just plain wrong. conservatives were too busy scraping the sh*t out of their pants and duct taping their porn collections to their windows and sending anthrax to democratic senators and news anchors to have even the remotest idea about "getting ready for war". It's a good thing I'm not a senator - I'd serve some decorum up they wouldn't soon forget." (A really classy opne that one!)

"Stomp the Turd Blossom!"

And lastly, this gem from a female poster: " So, Rove thinks we're all a bunch of wimped out...paisley wearing granola crunching peacniks? Come on to my house Karl baby...one step onto my porch your candy ass will have 3 German Shepherds on it. IF you can get thru them, you'll meet ME with my 9m pointed straight at you with one hand, while the other is calling the cops to come bust you for trespassing, you scum sucking piece of sh*t. Sorry. I am quite the pacifist in most cases, but this guy I just really really cannot stand. The world would be much better off if his mother had gotten an abortion."

Very, very nice people at DU.

[petercooper]

ha ha

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Facts irritate liberals."

Chunky Sch..it..mer would say, 'Damn the facts, we gotta get Rove, and he has to swear on a stack of Bibles (opps, Koran) that he is really, really, really sorry and will never say anything again'

[tarzantheapeman]

You have got to be kidding. I just lost any shred of respect I had for that RINO.

[TexasCajun]

Is this true? Is McCain really that crazy?

Well, not yet, but maybe soon? & Cybil-like, yes.

[Fudd Fan]

Yah, that last one is so typical. Probably she's on the front lines for gun control, except it shouldn't apply to HER. Hey maybe that poster was really Rosie Abominable...

[TexasCajun]

I'm kidding, but the evening is young.

[Mach9]

In short, I guess Mehlman got to him. Nevertheless, jolly good show, Guv!

[sofaman]

Sounds like the type of spew that would ooze from Rosie's mouth.

[Soul Seeker]

Pataki showed a spine? Now I'm convinced the Reps had this all planned.

Give it right back to her Pataki!! Amazing to hear a Conservative take it to the Queen! Now this is getting really fun. LOL