Republican Reaction To Democrats Using Iraq War As Political Fodder In 2006 Elections
We have been following this for the last couple days.
However, you know the antiwar groups had the democrats’ number on this shortly after the 2006 elections (recall Code Pink setting up camp on Pelosi’s front yard) when Bush/Cheney/Rove weren’t ‘frog-marched’ into impeachment hearings and hanged on the White House lawn as returning troops from Iraq were paraded past amid spits and fecal pitching …
Kanjorski says Dems were insincere about ending war
By Aaron Blake - The Hill -
Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) is seen in a video that has surfaced on the Web saying that Democrats “sort of stretched the facts” in the 2006 elections about their ability to end the Iraq war.
In a video , posted to YouTube on Thursday, Kanjorski reflects on the Democrats’ approach to the war in 2006 and said they pushed the rhetoric “as far as we can to the end of the fleet — didn’t say it, but we implied it — that if we won the congressional elections, we could stop the war.
“Now, anybody who’s a good student of government would know it wasn’t true,” he said. “But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress — we sort of stretched the facts.”
The video was dated Aug. 28, 2007, by the person who posted it. The remarks are not placed in a larger context.
Republicans reacted Friday by calling for Kanjorski to apologize.
“For Paul Kanjorski to admit that Democrats campaigned in ’06 on a fraudulent agenda to end the war not only exposes his own calculated efforts to fool the voters of his district, but it also raises the question of whether this was a coordinated effort by the Democratic Party as a whole,” said a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, Ken Spain. “Paul Kanjorski should be ashamed of himself for using our troops in harm’s way as political pawns for his own partisan agenda.”
In a statement, Kanjorski attributed the remarks to frustration and suggested that his Democratic colleagues weren’t deliberately over-selling their plan for Iraq.
“In an August 2007 town meeting, I shared the frustration of my constituents that the war in Iraq continued,” he said. “I expressed my belief that some Democrats in 2006 overestimated the ability of a single house of Congress to end the war, particularly in the face of an intransigent President and Senate Republicans who are committed to continuing the war.”
The 71-year-old 12th-term congressman is currently locked in what could be his first competitive congressional race since 2002, and Republicans have recruited Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta.
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Dont you try to fall to on the knife alone you son of a bitch! I want the Dems as a whole to come clean once and for all. Someone should draft up a petition calling on congress or even appointing a special commission to see how far this plot went.
we all know the Dems are all guilty but i would love to have a special commission digging for truth and subpoena members of the house and senate to testify under oath
May 24th, 2008 at 8:32 amGive this guy credit for being more honest than the rest of that leftwing gang called the democrat party.
May 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am“Now, anybody who’s a good student of government would know it wasn’t true.”
The democratic SOP.
1. Create an educational system that produces an ignorant electorate.
2. Lie like hell to get elected, because you can since the electorate is stupid.
3. Continue to entrench your ideology in the judicial branch.
4. Undermine the executive branch.
Thankfully we have a reset button called the second amendment, but they’ve been after that one for years.
May 24th, 2008 at 9:10 amThe Democrats have used the War, troops, troops families, citizens and even the people that they represent(democrat strongholds)The Left has gotten men, women and children killed by extending this war. They don’t care about anyone but taking government control. They would sacrifice NYC if they thought it would get them elected.
May 24th, 2008 at 9:44 am