Bush spin on Iraq war won't hurt Democrats: experts

[Barrett808]

Bush spin on Iraq war won't hurt Democrats: experts
by Fanny Carrier

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Attempts by the administration of US President George W. Bush to justify the continuing war in Iraq by comparing it to the 20th century war against Nazism as November elections draw near could actually benefit divided Democrats, experts said.

...

"A majority of the American people oppose the war in Iraq. Therefore, the Democrats, as the party that primarily opposed the war in Iraq, has this issue on its side," said Stephen Hess, an analyst at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

"It's the Bush administration that has to try to convince the majority of the American people that they're correct," he said.

Eric Davis, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, said the war can work to the Democrats' advantage in the run-up to the November 7 legislative election.

"The strategy for the Democrats is both to talk about other issues where they're strong -- economy, health care, gas prices and so forth -- and to simply take Bush on and say that his policy has not made the region more secure," Davis said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060901/pl_afp/uspoliticsbushiraq

[kurth]

1. It's been FIVE years since 9/11. Where's Osama bin Laden?

Every American should ask that question.

[goforit]

8. And this my friend is what the DEMS should stand on & zero have asked

[wicket]

12. Half of a freakin' decade!!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Recursion]

20. 5 years after Pearl Harbor...

...we had defeated Germany and Japan -- and tried 24 of the Nazi war criminals in Nuremburg.

[wicket]

21. Now THAT would make a great ad to use against the Repukes this fall

n/t

[Monkeyman]

2. Yep the 9/11 Commission reports should be used to wack him over

The Head and the Do Nothing Republican Congress we are no safer six years later

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[Barrett808]

5. FR misses you, Michael.

I'm afraid you won't find many sympathetic ears here.

[Spazito]

6. ROFLMAO! If that piece doesn't reek of desparation, I don't know

what does! Pathetic, truly pathetic.

[Tempest]

7. Michael Tremoglie and the Politics of Ad Hominem Distortion

http://www.counterpunch.org/wise06152005.html

[Barrett808]

11. Good find, thanks for the 411. n/t

[goforit]

9. Who is Michael Tremoglie? Whata delusionist!

[54anickel]

10. He's the author of A Sense of Duty. And that piece, posted in it entirety

(against DU rules) came from The Evening Bulletin.

http://www.theeveningbulletin.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17139588&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

Here's a whole collection of his tidbits of wisdom :eyes:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=13

[Richard Steele]

18. Just a putz troll who got tombstoned after 13 posts rehashing stale lies.

[knight_of_the_star]

13. Wow

This is coming from the guy whose Party invented such tactics!

[theanarch]

17. OMFG!!! What a fucking PARODY!!!

This is ROTFLMFAO HYSTERICAL!!! i mean...uh, what? this isn't satire? Oh, never mind...

[onehandle]

3. Only the stupidest and they're unattainable.

The Morans.

[rodeodance]

14. BRAV)--the headline actually says 'Bush spin"--te he.

[lpbk2713]

15. It's an obvious act of desperation

and it will work against them.

[rodeodance]

16. 4.5 stars

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[AX10]

19. This spin will FAIL!

[Kolesar]

22. bush* is just trying to move the polls a few % to prevent a gop slaughter

...in November. There might be a few people who get piped up and motivated to vote gop on account of this. bush* might preserve a few seats in Congress that he might have lost otherwise. He might preserve the Senate.

[pat_k]

23. Oh good, and excuse to lay low. . .

. . .instead of standing up and actually fullfilling their oath to support and defend the constitution by demanding Impeachment of bushcheney for their claims to, and exercise of, the unitary authoritarian power to

• terrorize Americans with threats of Mushroom clouds;


• commit war crimes;


• spy on citizens without a warrant; and


• rule by signing statement.

Unitary Authoritarian Power = Fascism

In the United States, the ONLY MORAL RESPONSE to a fascist executive
is to demand immediate Impeachment and removal.

Failure to do so is to appease the fascists.

Silence is complicity

It's pretty darn simple.

[Jack Rabbit]

24. This is not a surprise

There is no longer anything Mr. Bush can do or say concerning Iraq that would salvage his reputation in history or rally the American people behind him.

He lied; everybody but the willfully ignorant know it.

Whatever he says now will be taken as seriously as the young prankster's cry of "Wolf!".