This was received by a FReeper last week:
Read this latest communique from Senator Bill Frist to see how utterly despicable are the Democrats!!
Just a quick email to let you know about a six-page memo from Senator Reid’s office to Senate Democrats that surfaced over the weekend.
The memo titled “Real Security” directs Democrat Senators during the Congressional recess to hold events at military bases, with active military personnel to attack President Bush on national security issues. Here are some direct quotes:
“Ensure that you have the proper U.S. and state flags at the event, and consider finding someone to sing the national anthem and lead the group in the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the event,” the memo states.
“Hold a town hall meeting with state officials and a local National Guard unit at their armory to discuss the security impact of long deployments….Ask National Guard members to offer input on how security and disaster response at home is compromised by long deployments.”
“Visit the home of a military family that has purchased body armor on their own for a family member serving in Iraq or Afghanistan and hold an open press ‘conversion’ on this issue….Ask the family if they would be willing to hold the open press conversation/town hall meeting in their yard, on their front porch or in their home.”
In case Senate Democrats do not know, it is illegal to hold political events at military bases. Not to mention despicable to use the military and their families in this way.
When asked about this memo by the Washington Times, a staffer in Senator Reid’s office said, “It’s an effort to paint the White House and the Republican Congress as having a failed effort on national security issues, which is a direct result of their misplaced priorities and mismanagement.”
Sounds political to me…I also find it interesting that Harry Reid had to remind Senate Democrats to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
In fact, this isn’t the first memo, Democrat “strategists” have written about the military. Many of you will probably remember a Democrat memo that surfaced during the Florida Recount of 2000 that detailed how to disenfranchise overseas, military voters, because Democrats feared they had voted Republican.
Americans were outraged in 2000 and they should be outraged again by this memo.
If the Democrats wanted to truly help our troops they wouldn’t advocate cutting-and-running from Iraq, they wouldn’t call for a censure vote of President Bush and they wouldn’t ingratiate themselves with the Michael Moore wing of their own Party.
These three things have only emboldened our enemies and a memo from Harry Reid will never change that.
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Bill Frist, M.D.
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