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Democrats Outraged About Troops Being Informed Of Their Positions On The War
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Rob - 10:09am on 09/02/2007

Factual information about the political statements of politicians being distributed to the troops?  That’s outrageous!

The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier last weekend just what he was holding, the congressman was taken aback to find out.

In the soldier’s hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen’s meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting participants such as that soldier know where each of the lawmakers stands on the war. “Moran on Iraq policy,” read one section, going on to cite some the congressman’s most incendiary statements, such as, “This has been the worst foreign policy fiasco in American history.”

The bio of Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.)—“TAU (rhymes with ‘now’wink-sher,” the bio helpfully relates—was no less pointed, even if she once supported the war and has taken heat from liberal Bay Area constituents who remain wary of her position. “Our forces are caught in the middle of an escalating sectarian conflict in Iraq, with no end in sight,” the bio quotes.

“This is beyond parsing. This is being slimed in the Green Zone,” Tauscher said of her bio.

Leave it to a Democrat to call a factually-accurate, if inconveniently distributed, representation of her own political statements and actions a “sliming.”

What utter clowns these Democrats are.  And how pathetic it is that our military feels the need to counter their defeatist rhetoric with efforts like this one.


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