Posted on 07/13/2006 8:41:35 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Democrats have "sunk to a new low" by releasing a "shameless" fund-raising video with images of dead American soldiers, critics charge.
The video from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) shows U.S. flag-draped coffins loaded on an airplane, and a standing rifle supporting the helmet of a fallen GI, in a montage of "things that are wrong with America."
The attempt to capitalize on the deaths of American soldiers has generated outrage among politicians, veterans, military families, and conservative bloggers.
"The families of the fallen heroes of the War on Terror deserve our utmost respect and compassion," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. "They do not deserve to see the deaths of loved ones exploited by [DCCC Chairman Rahm] Emanuel and the DCCC.
"As former executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, I have seen the Democrats employ a lot of low-brow political tactics over the years, but Rep. Emanuel has sunk to a new low with this video. Using images of flag-draped coffins of American heroes in this sort of video is shameless and disgusting, and I ask that Rep. Emanuel apologize to military families for any pain that he has caused."
Another Texas Republican, Rep. Mike Conaway, is also calling for an apology: "I am extremely disappointed that the DCCC would exploit our young men and women in uniform who have sacrificed everything for the good of this country.
"The insensitivity of the Democrats to the families of the fallen troops is disrespectful, and the fact that they are using this as a way to somehow raise money is more than disturbing," Conaway said. "A huge apology to the troops and their families is owed by everyone involved in this travesty."
Vets for Freedom, America's largest nonpartisan organization representing the veterans of the global war on terror, denounced the fund-raising ad on the DCCC Web site.
"The fact that a political party is using the images of fallen Americans to raise money and score political points is reprehensible and absolutely shameful," Executive Director Wade Zirkle said in a statement.
"The sacrifices of our American heroes should never be used to fill the coffers of a political entity. Vets for Freedom calls on senators and congressmen from both sides of the aisle to demand the immediate cancellation of this advertisement, and a prompt apology from DCCC chair, Congressman Rahm Emanuel, to all American service members, veterans, and family members of the fallen."
The National Review's Mediablog column took the Democrats to task for suggesting that the "men and women of the U.S. armed forces are helpless victims of the Bush administration, as opposed to incredible warriors who are committed to winning in Iraq, making America safer and ensuring that the fallen have not died in vain."
As the Redstate.com blog notes, when President Bush showed images of September 11 in a 2004 campaign commercial, Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Tony Welch said it "was simply wrong for the president to use images of the 9/11 tragedy for political purposes."
The International Association of Fire Fighters passed a resolution criticizing the ad – and the Democrats used it in the John Kerry campaign.
Redstate asks: "Where are these people now? Where are they now that the Democrats are using dead soldiers for fund-raising purposes? Silent."
Of course the Rats are acting like vermin, how else can a rat behave? But their anti-American diatribes will come back to haunt them.
Of course, the new video gives Dem solutions and Dem alternatives and Dem strategies for a different outcome, right?
Oh, wait, the words 'Dem' and 'solution' cannot exist in the same sentence.
RATS hold no honor or esteem for the military. Never did! The demoncRATS have disrespected the military and vets for years.
They just plain hate George Bush. All criticism and no answers.
As a vet, the ThugoRATS are just simply American traitors. Worse than that, our system lets these maggots live under the protection our good soldiers, who fight and die, for this nation, protecting the traitors that defame them.
In my mind, this is more of an injustice than premeditated murder. The ThugoRATS do not deserve this country, to live in it, or anywhere near it. They are treasonous trash. I hope someday that American patriots will stand and put these scum in the place they belong...
FIRE UP THE E-MAIL MACHINES AND BOMBARD THESE SCUMBAGS WITH THE WRATH OF MILLIONS OF PATRIOTIC AMERCIANS WHO ARE OUTRAGED AT THIS!!!
The Dems are so pi$$y that they are not allowed to photograph the coffins of the dead coming home. It really stifles their wet dreams to only imagine the dead soldiers when they just know there are dead bodies somewhere to exploit.
It just boils my hid when they whine about how the administration won't let anyone photo the coffins. Of course, they care not one wit about the families of those soldiers who may actually appreciate a little privacy in the face of such tragedy. The families are left out of it.
And the arrogant, pompous attitude they have while saying that the coffins are a 'reality' of this war, as if the general public doesn't understand the cost and the death and suffering of our military. They simply lick their chops at the prospect of exploiting the death of our troops. It's just sickening. I don't need to see illegal photos of flag-draped coffins to know our soldiers are dying for a just cause.
The Dems are so pi$$y that they are not allowed to photograph the coffins of the dead coming home. It really stifles their wet dreams to only imagine the dead soldiers when they just know there are dead bodies somewhere to exploit.
It just boils my hid when they whine about how the administration won't let anyone photo the coffins. Of course, they care not one wit about the families of those soldiers who may actually appreciate a little privacy in the face of such tragedy. The families are left out of it.
And the arrogant, pompous attitude they have while saying that the coffins are a 'reality' of this war, as if the general public doesn't understand the cost and the death and suffering of our military. They simply lick their chops at the prospect of exploiting the death of our troops. It's just sickening. I don't need to see illegal photos of flag-draped coffins to know our soldiers are dying for a just cause.
Democrats dishonor the entire nation!
There is little left of that party that is honorable.
It deserves to die.
Shameless traitors.
...oh we don't want them to die.....they are too fun to humiliate..........
'Rats are used to exploiting death for their own selfish purposes. After all millions of aborted dead babies are the fruits of their twisted promulgations of abortion.
Also using the dead as voters not foreign either to D'Rats culture of corruption. WHats a few dead soldiers to them anyway if it furthers their own putrid ways.
The ads would be more honest if the flags on the coffins were on fire and/or if they showed some long-haired, sassy-mouthed, drug-crazed, hippie freak spitting on the rifle and helmet.
We honor our war dead for paying the ultimate sacrifice for our security.
The democrats use our war dead as a prop for cheap political gain. And that is just something that can never be forgotten, never be forgiven. Eternal Shame on those treasonous democrat louts. They will pay for it in November, that's how stupid they are, they shoot themselves in the foot.
They're trying to produce the same backstabbing they successfully carried out a generation ago.
It's contingent upon us not to allow this to happen. The libs' objective is 10 years of demoralization and defeatism among our military and our patriotic civilian population which will enable them to enact their social engineering and "progressive" agendas upon a population filled with doubt and self loathing.
More harm is being and will be done to this country by domestic traitors than by any foreign terrorists ever spawned.
This will come back to bite them in the butt, especially when we now even more see what a dangerous place the Middle East and Islam is today.
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