Posted on 04/29/2008 12:04:50 PM PDT by mojito
Howard Dean sent the following email to his mailing list yesterday:
"Dear Friend,
John McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He’s said it, and it’s on tape.
But his campaign hates that he was caught. They’ve viciously attacked anyone who reminded the American people that he said it, including me. They’ve said that those who reference the 100 years comments are “deliberately misleading voters.”
So we’ve taken John McCain’s own words — video of him saying that 100 years would be “fine with me” — and made a TV ad. There’s no confusion, no distortion, no misleading — it’s John McCain, on tape, for voters to judge on their own.
It’s one of the most powerful political ads I’ve ever seen. It’s devastating — and the McCain campaign will spend the rest of the election trying to fight it."
In addition to the McCain clip, this nasty advertisement features a clip of ... American soldiers being killed by an IED.
Yes, that’s right. The Democratic Party is using images of US troops being attacked by terrorists to make political points against John McCain.
It’s “devastating,” all right. But not to John McCain.
(Video player requires Flash Player.) Those are someone’s husbands, someone’s brothers, someone’s sons that you see being blown up in that video. I wonder how their families would feel about their loved ones being used for political gain in such a callous, unfeeling, cynical way?
UPDATE at 4/29/08 8:40:17 am:
Even more unbelievably, the IED clip comes from Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s at about 1:35 in this trailer: Fahrenheit 9/11 trailers. (Hat tip: MacGregor.)
UPDATE at 4/29/08 9:10:07 am:
And that’s not even the only reason this ad is beyond the pale; the entire ad is based on “a rank falsehood,” according to FactCheck.org:
The DNC’s message portrays McCain as bent on fighting an “endless” war in Iraq.
DNC: We can’t afford four more years with a President who fights an endless war in Iraq. ... On the war, McCain scoffed at Bush’s call to leave troops in Iraq for 50 years, saying “Make it a hundred!” That of course is a serious distortion of what McCain actually said to a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire back on Jan. 3. His actual words are posted in a video on YouTube. Far from advocating “endless war,” he said the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq would be “fine with me” provided that they’re not being killed or wounded. Here’s the full quote: McCain, Jan. 3: Make it a hundred. ... We’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as American, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. It’s fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintained a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting and equipping and motivating people every single day. It should be noted that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, despite their frequent talk of withdrawing from Iraq, have said repeatedly that they would maintain at least some troops in a combat role in Iraq for some time, possibly their entire term of office.
There’s little doubt that McCain is less eager than either Clinton or Obama to bring troops home without further suppression of insurgent attacks. But it’s a rank falsehood for the DNC to accuse McCain of wanting to wage “endless war” based on his support for a presence in Iraq something like the U.S. role in South Korea.
UPDATE at 4/29/08 9:35:07 am:
Confederate Yankee has still images of the clip: The DNC IED.
UPDATE at 4/29/08 9:48:10 am:
Ace thinks the soldiers in the clip may not have been killed by the blast. I changed the title to “blown up,” since there’s some doubt about whether anyone died in that actual incident.
But this detail is almost completely beside the point. 99.9% of the people who see this ad have no way of knowing that soldiers weren’t killed (if they weren’t). Immediately after the IED clip, the video fades and cuts to the aftermath of a car bomb explosion; it’s very clearly intended to make viewers think soldiers were killed.
And I don’t think it makes it much better if the soldiers were “only” wounded.
Thankfully, for the men shown in the ad, the attack was not fatal.
From Michelle Malkin's site:
"Reader redlegtruax e-mails:
Saw your post about the DNC ad, am not a registered poster so I can’t comment there. I believe that scene with the two Soldiers is from right after the invasion when the insurgency was becoming more active and roadside bombs were first named Improvised Explosive Devices. A news crew (don’t remember what organization, might have been NBC as I used to watch them back then) was with an American patrol, they spotted an IED. Two Soldiers stood behind a palm tree trying to get a better look at the object in question. The device exploded, the Soldiers were unharmed but ran from that spot immediately (as any of us would). So no one died, but the DNC is trying to make you think they did. Still in bad taste, but not as bad as showing insurgent footage of actual deaths"
There are few things lower than a DemocRAT.
Hopefully, the families of the American Troops being killed in the ad will sue the DNC out of existence.
This is just more of the Michael Moore Left’s politics. They are only using “John McCain’s words.”
Rats object to you capitalizing RAT!
Luckily the soldiers in the clip were uninjured. In the full clip, they walk away unharmed after the blast. Sorry, I have no link, but I remember seeing the entire clip over a year ago. They knew the IED was there, had cordoned off the area, and postioned themselves behind the tree to block a possible blast.
So, the rumor that the troops were killed is just that, a rumor?
Still in bad taste but the “100 years in Iraq” quote reminds me of Kerry’s “I was against the war before I was for it...”
A new low, but not unexpected.
What’s sad is that American soldiers are attacked, and one of our major national parties wants to retreat and abandon the ground to the attackers rather than obliterate the cowardly bastards. It’s been this way for decades now, which is one reason why Democrats usually lose.
But it’s dangerous for the country all the same.
The Korean government invited U.S. troops into their country to defend against a North Korean invasion. OTOH in Iraq, the U.S. is an uninvited occupying force, invading on false Bush Administration pretenses of WMD and an imminent threat to the United States.
Oh I don’t know, like maybe the duly elected government of Iraq wants our troops to stay? And we’ll leave when they ask us to? Kind of the same as S. Korea and identical to Germany.
Too hard to understand?
So many lies.
The U.N., not the U.S., went into Korea. And what a bang-up job they did! 58 years later, the war still isn't over.
In the Korean war, 23 countries were involved in preventing North Korea from conquering the entire Korean pennisula.
In the Iraqi war, 40 countries were involved in removing Saddam Hussein from power after scores of violations of a cease-fire that he had signed.
And Iraq did have WMD's, thousands have been found, and were working on a nuclear program. The evidence of this overwhelming, and yet unreported by major media outlets.
And Iraq was an imminent threat to the U.S. It repeatedly fired on our aircraft, it repeatedly violated the terms of cease-fire, and it repeatedly supported and hosted terrorists that proceeded to enact terrorism upon U.S. citizens and interests. It gave us Casus Belli over and over.
I see you've read and memorized the DNC talking points. Good for you. Maybe you also need to broaden your reading list to credible publications and relevant UN resolutions authorizing force for a multitude of violations with WMD constituting but one of many and the US laws starting in October 1998, as the U.S. Congress passed and President Clinton signed the "Iraq Liberation Act" and later paralleling US efforts in the U.N., Congress passed the October 2002 "Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq" authorizing the President to "use any means necessary" against Iraq.
oops, that should read .... unless MM is “more delusional than Jeremiah Wright” (which is a realistic possibility - she sounds a lot like him)
Ummmm....do you really think Saddam was going to INVITE us there? Are you serious?
Do you have ANY compassion for the thousands of men, women, and children that DIED under that scum-bucket?
Do you not think that Saddam harboured/funded/trained terrorists?
Do you ever think, on your own?
Dean and the other Democrats who made this are nothing more than pimps for murderous jihadists who want to kill us all.
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