Mothers of troops to help 'tell the truth,' McAuliffe says

[qwertyMike]

Mothers of U.S. troops serving in Iraq will help Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry make the case Monday that President Bush's optimistic view of the war does not reflect reality, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Sunday.

Kerry will make a "major address" on the issue at New York University, where at least five mothers of service members will criticize Bush's leadership in Iraq, McAuliffe told reporters in a conference call.

"They're sick and tired of George W. Bush and his rosy scenarios," he said. "They want America to know the truth, because they're talking to their sons and daughters" who have told them that Bush "is not telling the truth."


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/19/kerry.bush.iraq/index.html

[PartyPooper]

1. I hope they ask why the *Bush* twins don't serve.

and, why doesn't nephew, George P. Bush, serve either?

We wanna know!

:bounce:

[alittlelark]

2. Next the GOP will counter w/ 'Nat Guardsman's Mothers

for Truth'. The group will spin for 2 weeks until 1 of their sons/daughters gets killed. All of them (being mothers) will commiserate, have minor emotional meltdowns, and vote for Kerry. They'll be on the campaigner trail!

Bu*hco will them call them unpatriotic.:evilgrin:

[Sparkly]

3. I expect a response like, "look at those mean Democrats, exploiting

those poor, sweet women."

In other words, the women are weak and stupid.
The Democrats are using them.

That would be a typical response.

[qwertyMike]

5. You got it - from Lucianne.com :

Comments:
Call it what it is: John Feckless Kerry uses politicized mothers to attack the morale of US troops in Iraq. These mothers are going to be no different than the group of 9/11 mothers who are campaigning for Kerry, and no less despicable.

Reply 9 - Posted by: Pam, 9/19/2004 11:41:09 PM

Aiding and abetting the enemy. Jerry Brown said Kerry has to do whatever it takes to win. Pure evil.

Reply 10 - Posted by: plaid, 9/19/2004 11:43:51 PM

Since these 5 bimbos are appearing with Hanoi Johnny, we might want to check their authenticity. Personally, I doubt any of them have kids in Iraq. Most "veterans" and "veteran family members" Hanoi John parades out are always fraudulent. Check his history.

Reply 11 - Posted by: Joe Friday, 9/19/2004 11:51:29 PM

These vile and evil DemocRats have no shame!
They will lose!
Hanoi John Kerry is a traitor and real
Americans know it!
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http://www.lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=170515

Heehee

[cal04]

4. This from an article in the Village Voice

Kerry does know about war and he should be hammering Bush on this issue that Bush knows Nothing about)


There's a simple alternative to all this jittery nonsense. Why not let Kerry be Kerry? Everyone wants to talk about the war. Why not get him to tell the truth. In Vietnam he was a young man who answered the call of his nation to fight a war his leaders claimed was just and winnable. No one doubts he fought valiantly. In Vietnam he learned firsthand the lessons of war, and on returning home, changed his mind and had the rare courage to stand up for what he believed. There is no reason to skulk around, trying to anticipate Republican attacks on his war record. Kerry has nothing to hide. He is a war hero. His is a profile in courage.

Thirty-five years later, the same Kerry, now a senator, again answered the call of the nation and his president, and voted to support the war in Iraq, accepting the president's statements that it was in the interests of our national security to attack. So did most of Congress, convinced that Saddam was a monster and a liar who was secretly amassing weapons of mass destruction. When Kerry, like numerous others, discovered this not to be the case, he opposed Bush's policies and started calling it the wrong war at the wrong time. He publicly stated there was no easy way out, that we would have to craft an international approach through the U.N., perhaps run by NATO, and in this way gradually disentangle ourselves. This is not a flip-flop. It is a careful, judicious, moderate way forward proposed by a man who knows about war. So let Kerry be Kerry. Whatever happens, please let's not have another Dukakis.

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=839691