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Daschle is politicizing war
Arizona Republic ^ | 9/30/02 | C.D. Williams

Posted on 09/30/2002 7:10:45 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Thursday's lead story ("Dems: Bush politicizing war") was a clear distortion of the facts.

President Bush did not say that Senate Democrats were not interested in the security of the American people. Speaking about Democratic senators' insistence on pro-labor provisions in the Senate version of the Homeland Security bill, Bush said, "You need to worry less about special interests in Washington and more about the security of the American people." He did not mention the Democrats specifically.

I did not see a story about Democratic Sen. Zell Miller taking to the Senate floor after Daschle to lambaste his Democratic colleagues for their efforts to placate union bosses with job security provisions that the president has threatened to veto and is not in the House version of the bill.

Miller asked, "Have we lost our minds?" and later stated, "The U.S. Senate's refusal to grant this president and future presidents the same power that four previous presidents have had will haunt the Democratic Party worse than Marley's ghost haunted Ebenezer Scrooge."

Why did that U.S. Senate - on the one year anniversary of 9/11 - with malice and forethought, deliberately weaken the powers of the president in time of war?

Daschle is the one politicizing the war and placing union bosses' demands above our security. Biased reporting helps them.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: daschle; iraq; politicizing

1 posted on 09/30/2002 7:10:45 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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3 posted on 09/30/2002 7:21:17 AM PDT by William McKinley
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Carl von Clausewitz wrote
"It is of course well known that the only source of war is politics -- the intercourse of governments and peoples. . . . We maintain . . . that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means."
I wonder if it ever occurred to him that it would be the continuation of primarily domestic politics, rather than international.
4 posted on 09/30/2002 7:22:24 AM PDT by Goetz_von_Berlichingen
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I think Ari ought to play this up big:

Daschle over-reacting on faulty information
vs.
Bush calmly and methodically putting the strategy together.

Evil vs Leadership
5 posted on 09/30/2002 9:17:49 AM PDT by polemikos
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Daschle was just sticking to the first page of the democrat/Clinton strategy book--

Always, always, always, accuse your opponents of the things you do.
6 posted on 09/30/2002 10:26:31 AM PDT by republicman
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bttt
7 posted on 09/30/2002 11:06:15 AM PDT by PatrioticAmerican
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