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Democrats call White House rhetoric on Iraq 'outrageous'
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Opposition Democrats expressed outrage at a campaign by President George W. Bush's administration portraying critics of the Iraq war as defeatists reminiscent of those who tried to appease Nazis before World War II.
Bush's top aides, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, delivered strident speeches last week describing the conflict in Iraq as a crucial part of the "war on terror," invoking World War II and the Cold War.
"Can we truly afford to believe somehow, some way, vicious extremists can be appeased?" Rumsfeld asked in his address.
Democratic lawmakers said the White House was trying to attack its critics by questioning their patriotism and determination to fight terrorist threats.
"I thought his statements were outrageous," Representative Marty Meehan (news, bio, voting record) of Massachusetts told CNN's "Late Edition."
"They attack anyone who's willing to stand up and oppose their policy. I think that's wrong."
He accused the Bush administration of trying to link the September 11, 2001 attacks with the unpopular war in Iraq ahead of mid-term legislative elections in November.
"I think the administration is basically trying to take the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and take terrorism and put them all together and mix it up with Iraq," he said.
Democratic Senator Joe Biden of Delaware said Rumsfeld had gone "too far."
"He knew exactly what he was doing, the only similarity I find between this war and World War II is that this war is shortly going to have lasted as long as World War II," Biden told ABC's "This Week."
Okay, I have to say this about Biden's stupid comment here. It has to be said so you understand..., back then, during World War II, the Democrats didn't do everything they could to undermine the war, like they have this time. Wars have a tendancy to run smoother, and end quicker if their is no opposition, be it on the home front or the war front. We have had opposition on the war front, but most of the opposition has come from the home front idiots like Biden who don't know what they are talking about, but try to make everything think they do. I just wish that they would shut the hell up so we could get the job done sooner. The more they bellyache about babyish things here, the longer this is going to take! Plain and simple people!
He said the administration's language was too simple and that the various threats and crises facing the United States could not be solved by military power alone.
"We need political solutions, and so it's sad that no one in this administration is speaking to what these solutions are," Biden said.
The solution is simple people.....stop making the United States out to be the bad guy in eveything that is done without YOUR consent. If you democrats and Liberals would step back and look...you will see you have not had one good thing to say about what President Bush has done during his whole presidency, and he HAS done many good things. After all, we haven’t had a repeat of 9/11 have we? Under Clinton, we would probably have already been under the rule of Osama Bin Ladin!
But Republican lawmaker Christopher Shays defended Rumsfeld's words.
"I read Rumsfeld's speech and I buy into it entirely," Shays told CNN. "I think people need to wake up to this war that we are confronting, Islamist terrorism is a real threat. We see it in London. We see it in Europe. We're going to see it in the United States and we better wake up.
Now I don’t look at this whole thing the way the Liberals do. They are all Doom and Gloom when it comes to what the president is doing...there is never anything good said about him. It is just complete and absolute Bush Bashing that has no reason for being except for the fact that the Liberals hate Bush. That is the only reason for their stupidity and rhetoric that we have heard over the last six years.
The Democrats need to grow up and learn to take defeat the way they always expect everyone else to do when it happens to them. This is NOT a one way street designed just for the Democrats to get their way all the time. That is just total bullshit, and I for one will not take it anymore without raising my voice in opposition to the babyish tendancies that the Democratic leadership has displayed daily over the last six years!
God Bless America
-Robert-
Posted by Robert Garding
at 9:22 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, September 4, 2006 9:31 AM EDT
