Posted on 09/20/2007 9:24:46 AM PDT by stm
WASHINGTON — At a White House news conference Thursday, President Bush took the opportunity to drop a political bomb on Democrats, saying they are more afraid of riling extreme wings of their party than of riling the U.S. military.
The president was responding to a question about an advertisement run last week by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, which suggested Multinational Forces in Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus was falsifying information about the war, under a bold headline, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?"
"I thought the ad was disgusting," Bush told reporters in the White House briefing room Thursday.
"I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad, and that leads me to come to this kind of conclusion: That most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org — are more afraid of irritating them — than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal," the president said.
"And (it's) one thing to attack me. It's another thing to attack somebody like Gen. Petraeus," Bush said.
The remarks were the strongest about the ad from the White House since MoveOn placed the ad in The New York Times on the same day that Petraeus was to deliver his report on military progress in Iraq to Congress.
The ad struck a nerve among Republican leaders, who called on Democrats to denounce it and the group. Republican White House candidates also have been vocal on the issue, most notably Rudy Giuliani, who then asked The Times to grant him space in their pages to denounce the ad. To different degrees, Democrats have distanced themselves from the ad's message.
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This classifies as a “politcal bomb”? Shame on FoxNews. What was a political bomb was the Petraeus ad. Let’s put things in perspcetive.
My apologizes for the double reply....
How dare those scum use a scene from ‘The Song Remains the Same’ to attempt to smear Alito! Ugggh!
Is that Robert Plant?
Another freeper said it was. It was embedded in that blog post I copied over.
I’ve no idea what the point of the picture is. I just copied the entire entry.
Uh...note to journalist. Chuck Hagel is NOT part of the administration...thank God.
Yes, I saw post 43 saying it was a scene from “The Song Remains The Same.”
I tried to watch that movie once about 25 years ago, and walked out on it. I guess I suppressed the memory, which is why that scene didn’t register with me.
I’ve heard that flick referred to as “The Song Remains So Lame”, which I can relate to.
:^)
I am so proud of President Bush for his statement on this. It's one thing attacking me but the General and our military. President Bush is a huge protector of his family...he considers our troops family so he takes a strong fightin' stance.
I first heard Duncan Hunter saying that the Dems were afraid of MoveOn.org, when he did a tv interview with O’Reilly. Then a day or two later, I heard O’Reilly say it on his radio show. Now the president is coming out and saying it, and I’m so happy to hear it from him.
Git ‘em, Dubya!
Why does it take Republicans so long to find their backbone?
Unlike Bush who doesn't give a royal crap about Conservatives that elected and re-elected him. It's whatever is best for Mexico and the people that break the law he swore to uphold that matters!
They are more afraid of losing the money from left wing groups than they are of losing their lives to terrorists.
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