Posted on 09/06/2011 2:29:57 PM PDT by Nachum
Not the White House, nor the Obama 2012 campaign, nor Democratic National Committee had any immediate comment Tuesday when contacted by ABC News and asked about comments made by Koch referring to the 2012 campaign as a repeat of the Iraq War.
“We have Saddam Hussein, this is the Mother of All Wars we’ve got in the next 18 months,” Koch said in comments at a private gathering in Colorado in June, first reported by the progressive Brad Blog and Mother Jones Magazine. ”For the life or death of this country.”
ADD Philip Ellender, President and COO, Government and Public Affairs for the Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC, said in a statement that “Koch was not referring to President Obama in his remarks. The ‘Mother of All Wars’ is a common phrase, frequently attributed to Saddam Hussein on the eve of the first Gulf War. Amid record U.S. unemployment, continued economic decline, and loss of liberty, the U.S. has been plunged into its own ’mother of all wars.’ Our nation’s future will be determined in the coming months by the choices Americans make to address the serious economic issues facing our country.”
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I agree with you.
The armed services certainly have patriots in the ranks, but upward mobility is often determined by political correctness and liberal-friendly traits.
Leftys consider themselves to be the nation’s “intelligentsia”, ie the only people that matter, and they spend much of their time villifying the Koch brothers, although I doubt they have a clue what the Koch brothers politics really are.
After Hoffa, how can the WH say anything....
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