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I recently received a link to a video put out by gop.com from one of my Republican friends (with whom I enjoy regular shouting matches) and I thought it was interesting enough to write about here.
Here's the video (don't worry, it's only 3 mins 47 seconds). LINK
I understand the point the GOP propagandists are trying to make with it, but it doesn't entirely satisfy me as being a sound argument. The most condensed summary of the video I could make would be along the lines of "Ha-ha, you were as wrong as we were", which is hardly a brilliant point. Kind of like John Wayne Gacy criticising Ted Bundy.
Some of the Democratic Party members shown in the video are also known warmongers and war supporters anyway, so pointing that out is merely pointing out the obvious to educate the oblivious. Think of the bombing attacks Bill Clinton metered out during his presidential term... Think of Hillary Clinton demonstrating outside the American UN building with a banner in her hand that read "Israel is Fighting for American Values", and her continued outspokenness about her support of the possibility of a pre-emptive attack on Iran. Hillary's record on war issues doesn't fill me with very much confidence at all. She might have the donkey as the symbol of her chosen party, but with regard to possible Presidential candiditure, she's the biggest elephant in the room as far as I'm concerned.
As for the section where Nancy Pelosi says "Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons, there's no question about that"... Well, yes he certainly did, because Donald Rumsfeld sold some of them to him. I don't see what the inclusion of that clipping was intended to acheive, unless they just couldn't resist dropping a picture of her face into an anti-Democratic Party propaganda video because they're a bit upset that she's become the current Speaker of the House which now enjoys a Democratic majority.
Finally, the concluding piece of footage shows excerpts of George W Bush reading a speech someone else wrote for him, including the following: "When I took the decision to remove Saddam Hussein, Congress approved it with strong bi-partisan support..."
Doesn't that sit uncomfortably with you? I think it would with most. It seems like a very convenient way of retrospectively delegating blame, fuelled by the notion that the more thinly the blame is spread, the less of it there is plastered on him. It was still his decision, his responsibility as Commander in Chief. The real reason so many senators, including 29 Democrats, voted in favour of the Iraq Resolution was because the dossiers and so-called intelligence gathered for consideration was full of holes and later turned out to be absolutely misleading. Let's also not forget that the UN voted overwhelmingly against the war and thus forbade it, but being one of the five privileged member states of the UN with the absolute power to veto, Bush went ahead with it anyway, with his middle finger erected towards the international community and the world in general, so for him to talk about justification in terms of votes in his own senate is duplicitous. Characteristically so.
On the whole, however, the video does serve as a sound reminder of the horrible state of political affairs in that country and mine, but it fails as an effective pro-Republican video since in pointing out these perceived hypocricies of Democratic Party members, it also reminds us that the Republicans were the ones saying those pro-war things, too, except louder and with greater temerity. All the more reason not to vote for them, or any of the people featured in the video.
All the more reason to seek someone who has always been anti-war. Someone who is not a hypocrite, and someone who doesn't need notes to speak while he pretends the words coming out of his mouth are his own.
I believe some members of GOP.com like to call him Iraq Hussein Osama.
Here's the video (don't worry, it's only 3 mins 47 seconds). LINK
I understand the point the GOP propagandists are trying to make with it, but it doesn't entirely satisfy me as being a sound argument. The most condensed summary of the video I could make would be along the lines of "Ha-ha, you were as wrong as we were", which is hardly a brilliant point. Kind of like John Wayne Gacy criticising Ted Bundy.
Some of the Democratic Party members shown in the video are also known warmongers and war supporters anyway, so pointing that out is merely pointing out the obvious to educate the oblivious. Think of the bombing attacks Bill Clinton metered out during his presidential term... Think of Hillary Clinton demonstrating outside the American UN building with a banner in her hand that read "Israel is Fighting for American Values", and her continued outspokenness about her support of the possibility of a pre-emptive attack on Iran. Hillary's record on war issues doesn't fill me with very much confidence at all. She might have the donkey as the symbol of her chosen party, but with regard to possible Presidential candiditure, she's the biggest elephant in the room as far as I'm concerned.
As for the section where Nancy Pelosi says "Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons, there's no question about that"... Well, yes he certainly did, because Donald Rumsfeld sold some of them to him. I don't see what the inclusion of that clipping was intended to acheive, unless they just couldn't resist dropping a picture of her face into an anti-Democratic Party propaganda video because they're a bit upset that she's become the current Speaker of the House which now enjoys a Democratic majority.
Finally, the concluding piece of footage shows excerpts of George W Bush reading a speech someone else wrote for him, including the following: "When I took the decision to remove Saddam Hussein, Congress approved it with strong bi-partisan support..."
Doesn't that sit uncomfortably with you? I think it would with most. It seems like a very convenient way of retrospectively delegating blame, fuelled by the notion that the more thinly the blame is spread, the less of it there is plastered on him. It was still his decision, his responsibility as Commander in Chief. The real reason so many senators, including 29 Democrats, voted in favour of the Iraq Resolution was because the dossiers and so-called intelligence gathered for consideration was full of holes and later turned out to be absolutely misleading. Let's also not forget that the UN voted overwhelmingly against the war and thus forbade it, but being one of the five privileged member states of the UN with the absolute power to veto, Bush went ahead with it anyway, with his middle finger erected towards the international community and the world in general, so for him to talk about justification in terms of votes in his own senate is duplicitous. Characteristically so.
On the whole, however, the video does serve as a sound reminder of the horrible state of political affairs in that country and mine, but it fails as an effective pro-Republican video since in pointing out these perceived hypocricies of Democratic Party members, it also reminds us that the Republicans were the ones saying those pro-war things, too, except louder and with greater temerity. All the more reason not to vote for them, or any of the people featured in the video.
All the more reason to seek someone who has always been anti-war. Someone who is not a hypocrite, and someone who doesn't need notes to speak while he pretends the words coming out of his mouth are his own.
I believe some members of GOP.com like to call him Iraq Hussein Osama.