“Watch it now on GOP.com”

“It’s time to set the record straight about Iraq. That’s why we’ve released this new web video, “Democrats: Dishonest on Iraq.” Watch it now on GOP.com.

Watch, and you’ll see Senator Hillary Clinton talking tough when it came time to confront Saddam, saying “I can support the President, I can support an action against Saddam Hussein because I think it’s in the long-term interests of our national security …” Or Howard Dean calling Iraq an “international outlaw.” Or House minority leader Nancy Pelosi stating unequivocally, “Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There’s no question about that.”

Watch Democrat after Democrat on tape, reaching the same conclusion the President reached about Iraq.

Now that the politics have changed, those Democrats are trying to rewrite history. We welcome a robust debate about the conduct of the war. But for these Democrats to make politics their bottom line, abandoning their long-held positions when times get tough, sends the wrong message to the Iraqi people and to the terrorists. Whatever the politics in Washington, our troops need to know that our will is strong, our nation is united, and we will defeat this enemy.

Be a part of setting the record straight by watching the video on GOP.com, and sending it to your friends and family. You are where this Democrat dishonesty ends.

Sincerely,

Ken Mehlman

Chairman, Republican National Committee

This came in an e-mail. You Democrats are not going to like this, but it reminds me mightily of the baloney that LBJ fed us all long ago. There is the same detachment from reality, the same willingness to bend the truth, the same willingness to cast aspersions on the motives of fellow citizens who do not agree with your policy.

This also reminds me of the brainless repetitive hectoring of “the citizens” in the lamentable film, “Starship Troopers.” In this film, a “federation” government of the future relentlessly indoctrinates, spins, minimizes, entices and lies to obtain a willing compliance from the citizenry.

Politicians?

A plague on all their houses.

Col. Patrick W. Lang (Ret.), a highly decorated retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces, served as “Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism” for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was later the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. Col. Lang was the first Professor of the Arabic Language at the United States Military Academy at West Point. For his service in the DIA, he was awarded the “Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive.” He is a frequent commentator on television and radio, including MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann (interview), CNN and Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room (interview), PBS’s Newshour, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” (interview), and more .

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