"If you call me a defeatist and unpatriotic, I'll throw a tantrum and stomp my feet!"
Posted on 09/03/2006 7:29:42 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at p26.news.re2.yahoo.com ...
The screams of outrage are proof positive of the success of this approach.
Senator Mitch McConnel has it right.
If the shoe fits - wear it.
I have questioned their patriotism since day one..
Democrat response: "How dare you oppose our policy???"
Looks like Bush is going to make the election about Iraq again. It worked last time.
Yes, it does seem to be well timed rhetoric. I wish they would've been speaking this way along time, but maybe they are saving thier best lines for the upcoming elections.
The dems can't save any rhetorical ammunition, it's like a steady stream of BB's. Rumsfeld Bush and co. dropped the bomb on the dems with these latest comments.
Time to question the Patriotism of all Traitors!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
If you're going to get "beat over the head" on Iraq might as well fight back challenge their motive.
Republicans and conservatives call it OUTSTANDING!!
The scumocrats are appeasers and are blatantly traitorous. It is beyond me how anyone cannot see this plain as day.
What did he say?
Timing is everything...
Someone else beat me to the "If the shoe fits, wear it" line...but I will use it anyway. IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT!
Like Joe Kennedy?
The RATS want us to cut and run, raise our taxes and impeach our President. That is what 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."
Yes, Joe, and the Bush bashing and Anti-American propaganda your party has engaged in from two weeks after 9/11 until today has slowed the progress in this war immensley. In WWII we had a nation completely unified to the goal of defeating the enemy. Today we have liberal idiots trying to derail the war against our enemies and playing into the hands of the Islamo-facists. Shame on you Joey for lying to the American people.
Sounds like he got his info straight from the DNC talking points.
In a related story, the White House calls Dem-necrotic rhetoric treasonous and seditious
The Dems have put themselves on that tree limb again.
The RAT party is "outrageuos" in the ANTI-AMERICANISM.
PHUQUE them and the whores that they rode in on!
I read on another site an interesting observation: The dems are livid with Bush, et al, regarding the Nazi comparison. Yet, when one of their own, Senator Dick Durbin/Turbin stood in the well of the senate and accused our troops of acting like the Nazi's, there was not a single word of outrage by the democrats. I hope that the pubbies will have this little factoid in their pocket when the dems take to the senate floor, under the leadership (gag) of Senator Boxer to condemn Rummy and go for a vote of no confidence. I surely hope the pubbies have the brass ones ready, the dems deserve to taken to task on Turbin/Durbin's comments and his slander of our troops. Hopefully they are or will be ready. After watching Santorum today it appears the pubbies are ready for battle....and they better be strong.
"Democratic lawmakers said the White House was trying to attack its critics by questioning their patriotism"
Duh!
1) Without question. Dissention in the ranks always emboldens an enemy
2) I do not oppose the president, not quite sure where you got that idea. I oppose the people who make us fight this war with a hand tied behind our backs. Dropping leaflets before we bomb, for example. Dumbest idea ever.
Hi. Nonsense.
APf
One thing's for sure. What Rummy said must have cut to the bone, and they must see it hurting them, because they sure are pissed about it.
They would laugh it off if they didn't think it was a threat to them.
So, THAT means it's WORKING...8-)
I hope a lot of the Republican Senators watched Sen. Santorum today...because THAT is how we want to see them handle the MSM and their Dem counterparts when debated about the war...Iraq or otherwise.
When Fat Timmah asked Santorum point blank whether he backs President Bush...he answered YES...without conditions.
"If you call me a defeatist and unpatriotic, I'll throw a tantrum and stomp my feet!"
The rats are screeching loudly. Must be working like a charm!
Truth hurts doesn't it.
Donks have weak chins. For 5 years they have been throwing bombs with the help of the MSM. Bush and Co. throw a few jabs to test the donks chins and they drop like a sack of potatoes.
I broke my rule today, based on what other freepers said about how Santorum performed on MTP, and watched Fat Dim Tim. Santorum was awesome....he only let Fat Dim Tim interrupt him once, that I could tell, and he was clear, consice, to the point, well spoken, sincere, and strong. After seeing the two side-by-side, folks in PA cannot in good conscience vote for the whimp. Strenth wins, and Santorum showed it today, big time.
Sorry,my questions weren`t meant to be addressed to you, they are instead, questions to ask our Bushbashing friends.
So the dems feel the pressure hey???? Awww to bad....I hope they really feel the pressure by Nov. 7 like really bad, loosing pressure....
Democrats are outrageous. I am sure some will take that as a compliment. ;)
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
I am glad you got to see it...
I usually do NOT subject myself to MTP...but, I wanted to see not only how Santorum would do...but how Casey would do...I hadn't seen him speak yet.
I am glad I did...it makes me feel better about Santorum's chances...Casey is a DNC "robot" that just spouts talking points..
It was so funny when he "accused" Rick of being a rubber stamp for the POTUS....when everything he said was the exact same thing that EVERY other dem has said recently.
It is widely known and believed throughout America (outside Oklahoma and a few other irrationally conservative states) that President Bush already clearly ranks as the worst ever and is morally inferior to Adolf Hitler. For a Bush administration official operating within the logical framework of that indisputable Truth to blast our enemies as fascist is the height of hypocrisy and insanity. Those among us who still cling to the thoroughly discredited philosophy of political conservatism might disregard the Democrats' rhetoric as the ramblings of psychotics in a mental institution.
But to the overwhelming majority of the American people, under the incessant barrage of the Truth from the ostensibly nonpartisan press or so destitute that they cannot afford those media, President Bush practices every evil associated with Fascism and Nazism and worse. Vice president Cheney to these people represents the Incarnation of Satan. Bush transformed himself into a demon, under orders from Cheney, possessed an otherwise innocent Muhammad Atta, and conspired to kill thousands of Americans on 11 September 2001. He committed these massacres to start a war for oil that has proved a miserable failure--just look at gasoline prices--but enriched his greedy crony friends in the oil industry at the needless expense of extinguishing hundreds of thousands of lives. The Democrats have appeased these demonic fascists through overly conciliatory rhetoric, especially after elections that the Democrats should have won. The Democrats would have prevailed in 2000 and 2004 if only the Republicans had not stolen the elections through the time-tested but incredibly devious technique of convincing more Americans to vote Republican than the Democrats could fabricate for their candidates.
Our partisan enemies and their fellow enemies of the United States abroad operate from this worldview. Perhaps recognizing these Truths will enable us to understand the Democratic rhetoric and to forge new talking points that logically fall within their logical framework. I'm not sure how we possibly could wage the 2006 or 2008 elections successfully, but the Republican party must recognize now that second-term presidential campaigns always represent a failure. We need a presidential candidate not tainted by this Administration who can maintain good media relations. I'm thinking McCain or Guiliani or even the corrupt Chaffee-style liberal George Pataki.
I love it Coop. Time to call a spade a spade.
Biden can't count. 9/1/1939-8/15/1945 is just short of 6 years. I guess he is counting from 12/7/41. Is he denigrating the efforts of our allies? Shame on him! ;)
First of all, they think that the real purpose of the war is not to kill Islamic Fascists, but to provide a pretext for collapsing civil liberties so that political subversives, minorities and gays can be rounded up and placed into detention camps and tortured and killed. Please don't laugh. They actually believe this. They also believe that the terrorist threat is nonexistent, fabricated by the right wing in order to solidify our hold on power. Why we should have such a difficult time winning a war we made up from whole cloth is beyond me, but that's not my point.
I think they truly fear a win in Iraq because they think it will empower the Republicans to go even further in limiting civil liberties, attacking gays, torturing dissidents, etc. And so they are basically doing everything in their power to snatch defeat from the throes of victory.
To the extreme left, anyone, including Muslims who enslave women and strap bombs to their children, who resists American force is a "freedom fighter." I know it sound convoluted, but having read numerous posts at Dimwit Underground and Arrianna Post I can say that it is so.
Therefore, the only answer is to use the Patriot Act to find out who these lefties are, round them up and send them all to Guantanamo, and force them to put underwear on their heads. We might as well make their wildest dreams come true.
Yes. Bush has been soft peddling too much. If Clinton appointees in the government have lied to make Clinton look good and caused harm to nations defense they should be prosecuted.
"Can we truly afford to believe somehow, some way, vicious extremists can be appeased?" Rumsfeld asked in his address.
That is strident? AFP needs to get a grip.
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