Anti-War Talk: Hypocrisy Or Patriotism?
January 30, 2007, 9:21pm
What do Democrats think of Iraq today? Something quite different than what they used to think, according to the Republican Party. The GOP has a new ad that highlights past statements of Democratic leaders in an effort to paint them as hypocrites for their views now.
Most of the statements are from 2002. Here are some examples:
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.: “Saddam Hussein in effect has thumbed his nose at the world community, and I think that the president is approaching this in the right fashion.”
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California: “Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There’s no question about that.”
- Sen. John (Jay) Rockefeller of West Virginia: Hussein is “working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons.”
- And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a likely 2008 presidential candidate: “I can support the president. I can support an action against Saddam Hussein.”
The ad also features excerpts from two other presidential contenders — Sen. Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina — and from Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh.
On the other side of the Iraq debate, VoteVets features Iraq war veterans in a new 30-second ad titled “Stop Escalation.” “If you support escalation,” said one veteran without a left hand, “you don’t support the troops.”
That effort followed a video spot from three months ago titled “Because of Iraq,” which blamed the U.S. focus on Iraq for the failure to capture al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, for spreading the military too thin, for creating more terrorists, and for making America less secure. “Saying these things out loud is patriotic,” one veteran says.
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