Posted on 12/10/2005 1:45:07 PM PST by bnelson44
Today, Senator Daniel Inouye, the Ranking Member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his service in World War II, released the following statement:
"As a Veteran of World War II, I know what it’s like to fight a war and put your life on the line every day. I also know what it takes to win a war, and I know that politics and an attack machine like the President’s plays no part in it.
"The Republican Party’s latest ad is a shameful and disgusting attempt to distract the American people from the problems in Iraq. It may improve the President’s political fortunes, but the American people and our troops will pay the price. I hope that President Bush realizes how shameful it is to play politics when what we really need is leadership, and that he will direct his Party to take down this ad immediately."
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Mr. Senator,
I respect your courage in combat and personal sacrafice. However, like you I took an oath to protect and defend the constitution as you did when I enlisted. That oath included the words "against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC".
I have fought communist in the fields and rice paddys of Viet Nam, and the DOMESTIC communist democratic party since I returned home and became old enough to VOTE.
You sir have FORGOTTEN your oath.
Exactly.
The troops vote overwhelmingly Rep, and awhile back I saw that those actually in Iraq voted voted in even greater numbers for the Reps. It's antics like Kerry calling them terrorists that are responsible for that lopsided favor for Republicans.
I'm sure they are cheering if they've seen this ad. It nails the low lifes to the ground, and that's why the Senator is whining.
he COULD be whining about Kerry calling troops terrorists, Durbin comparing them to Pol Pot, Murtha stating they are broken down and Dean saying they don't have the abilities to win a war but instead he complains because the RNC gives their words a bigger audience. Which proves his statement is political, and he acknowledges that by focusing in on how he thinks this helps the president politically.
Amazing turnaround they've had these last few weeks. They thought America was ready to abandon the Iraqi's to killing fields, and ship our troops home in disgrace. They bet wrong.
Those slime balls just love to dish it out, but they can not take it when dealt back to them.
After all, they do have screaming stuck on stupid Dean as their leader!!!!
I don't see a problem with it. It's just that honesty is to democrats what a cross is to a vampire or water to the Wicked Witch of the West.
Mr Inouye...get off your high horse and stop politicizing this. Truth hurts.
If it hurts that much, tell your despicable comrades to cease and desist their creeping paranoid antics aimed against our nation and our fighting forces.
Otherwise stfu!
after all the ad is just saying what their mouth pieces say daily......
dims, if you don't like it SHUT YOUR PEOPLE UP!
. . .why not take 'down' Dean. . .Kerry. . .Kennedy and the host of Demrat 'et als' who as their 'Party elite', are earning for themselves, a well-deserved slap upside their pointy, little Liberal heads. . .
well said.
He can not say 'the the politicization of the war is wrong' because he himself is politicizing the war by only criticizing the opposition party in the face of egregious rhetoric that he is giving a pass for political reasons.
That is dishonorable.
He should and he should be more supportive of our troops, those are valid criticisms, IMHO.
"The Republican Party’s latest ad is a shameful and disgusting attempt to distract the American people from the problems in Iraq.
THAT is a politicized statement. Distract? problems in Iraq? That is political speak. He is inferring nefarious motives to distract from the content of the ad.
I hope that President Bush realizes how shameful it is to play politics when what we really need is leadership, and that he will direct his Party to take down this ad immediately."
Another politicized statement. Putting a shot in there that the President is derelict in leadership during wartime.
IF he is really "sincere" is asking for politics to be absent, he would not make these political inferences.
The entire statement is political. And it's meant to attempt to intimidate to cease the ad, because the ad is effective in pinpointing what the Democrats are doing. Calling for surrender.
Yep, the Dems don't know... at least not the ones who are running their party right now.
Show the ad twenty times during the Super Bowl.
I would write this Ad on the memo portion of the check to support that idea!
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