http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=16033
Democrats Use Dead Americans as Campaign Props
by Michael Reagan
Jul 14, 2006
EXCERPT
Just when you think that the national Democrats can sink no lower, they reach down into the mud and mire in their bag of political tricks and come up with a new and slimier example of their utter shamelessness.
Not content with merely undermining the valiant efforts of our servicemen and women risking and sometimes losing their lives fighting international terrorism around the world, the Democrats have now produced a video commercial exploiting the deaths of American soldiers and Marines in order to raise money and win votes.
Democrats Use Dead Americans as Campaign Props
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by carpro, Jul 14, 2006.
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And let's just clarify before the liberal onslaught begins.
It's not the pictures we object to. It's the use of the photos and the spirit in which they're displayed. -
Yeah, the notion that someone should be accountable for this mess is just awful. Why those dirty democrats actually showed a flag-draped coffin, and a rifle stuck in ground with a helmet on it! Why, people might get to think that troops are dying.
In previous wars, this was considered "honoring our fallen soldiers." With Bush and the neocons, they are just embarassing detritus of war, to be kept out of sight. We sneak them back into the country in the dead of night so no one will see.
And let's get it right. What the neocons hate is not the way it's presented, it's that people will understand what the cost of their little ideological adventure really is. The cynical disregard people like Bush and Cheney and the other chickenhawks have for men and women who actually serve honorably is disgusting. This partisan and unpatriotic attempt to hide all traces of those who made the ultimate sacrifice is disgusting. -
Do you have some kind of proof? Or a link? -
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Democrats use the dead as campaign props? Did anyone see the shameful display about the 9/11 casualties and families at the Republican National Convention in 2004? It was so over the top it made me sick.
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Why is it that you're not? -
The neocon propagandists have declared that talking about the loss of life (or God forbid, show a coffin) is evil if it's used to stop the war.
It is, of course, patriotic and noble if it's done to continue the war. -
Or fill the gas tank?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060715/ap_on_el_ho/democratic_ad_1
Democrats pull ad with flag-draped coffins By SEANNA ADCOX, Associated
Press Writer
Fri Jul 14, 8:45 PM ET
ROCK HILL, S.C. - Democrats pulled an Internet ad that showed flag-draped coffins Friday after Republicans and at least two Democrats demanded it be taken down on grounds the image was insensitive and not fit for a political commercial.
The ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called for a "new direction" and displayed a staccato of images, including war scenes, pollution and breached levees as well as a photograph of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay doctored to look like a police mug shot. -
You will never hear a liberal say, "Thanks to the brave sacrifice of Sgt. Smith, a Iraqis are free." "Thanks to the sacrifice of Pvt Jones, women in Afghanistan can vote now".
That is honoring a fallen soldier.
Acknowledging what he died for and what he accomplished in his life and by his death and showing an attitude of gratefulness for that is honoring a fallen soldier.
Showing a picture of his casket and saying, "this poor dupe is a victim of George Bush. Now give us some money", is not honoring them, it is exploiting them and once again illustrates the complete lack of any sense of patriotism or morality on the part of liberals. -
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As to Mike, you need to invest a few dollars in a dictionary. Liberal and hypocrite are entirely two different things. Plus, yep, I'm liberal on some things, very conservative on others, so your binary world view is flawed. Indeed, I don't want anyone exploting the dead.
This un-Christlike name-calling and ad hominem is the last refuge of one who has no lucid argument to make. -
Magnetic Poles said:As to Mike, you need to invest a few dollars in a dictionary. Liberal and hypocrite are entirely two different things.Click to expand...
Liberal refers to one's politics.
Hypocrite refers to a common characteristic of liberals. -
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Originally Posted by carpro
Then you should also be sick over this shameful use of our dead to make a political commercial.
Why is it that you're not?
Magnetic Poles said:First of all, carpro, who says I am not. .Click to expand...
Are you sick over the shameful use of our dead to make a political commercial? -
Mike McK said:Hypocrite refers to a common characteristic of liberals.Click to expand...
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carpro said:Quote:
Originally Posted by carpro
Then you should also be sick over this shameful use of our dead to make a political commercial.
Why is it that you're not?
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite SupporterStraightAndNarrow said:Actually, I'm much sicker than these brave American soldiers died in a war that was completely unjustified. Buch keep trying to come up with a good reason for invading Iraq. Now what was it that he finally settled on? Afghanistan was a just war. Israel is justified in attacking the Hasballah. But Iraq was a war that happened because Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield wanted for it to happen.Click to expand...
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