Hypocrisy? RNC Releases Video: "Dems: Dishonest on Iraq"

[kpete]

The RNC today has released a Web video which paints Democrats as hypocrites for criticizing the Iraq war after having warned about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction before the war began.

The video includes footage of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, former President Clinton, then-Gov. Howard Dean (from Canadian TV in 1998!), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Foreign Relations Ranking Member Joe Biden (D-DE), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY).

http://www.rnc.org/

It should be Noted, however, that the video is misleading in two ways: first, the President's Veterans Day speech is used to suggest that all the Democrats featured in the video voted for the war — an implication that is not true.

Second, the RNC video implies that all of the Democrats shown in the video have turned against the Iraq war — something that's also not true.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

[sui generis]

1. Gosh, but what do they say about the allegations?

I know they think we're poopy heads, and they have made that clear, but what about the allegations that they lied to get us into war? As usual, no answer.

Now when they do something more than just whine and throw sticks and stones I'll experience a frisson of nervous agitation that they might actually have something to say besides namecalling, but until then, send them a big old bag of yawn from me.

[aquart]

2. Yes, we're hypocrites. They, however, are criminals. Worse. Traitors.

They have knowingly acted to the detriment of the American people and the welfare of the United States.

[lpbk2713]

3. The oldest trick in the RNC Handbook.

Point fingers at the Dems and accuse us of what they themselves are blatantly guilty of. Sometimes it actually works so they keep on trying.

[Loonman]

4. These statements don't mean a single damn thing

It was all negated when the inspectors left and Bush attacked.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. This is true. If Bush had allowed the inspectors to finish their

inspection, we would have known that Saddam had disarmed. Since this was not the info that Bush wanted, he made them leave so he could proceed with his invasion.

Regardless what these people said on these video clips, they all would have known the truth if Bush had not preempted the inspectors. Think of the lives that would not have been lost for a pack of lies.

[Mr_Spock]

5. Did Bush mislead the American people about Iraq's WMD capabilities?

It is irrelevant what anybody else thought or said - Bush ordered 31,000 and rising every day people to their deaths based of false and MORE EGREGIOUSLY - KNOWINGLY EXAGGERATED intelligence data. Unfortunately, Bush needs to take responsibility for his mistake and take his rightful position in the hellfire for the mass murder he has commited...

[dkofos]

6. Should we flood the rnc with

copies of the Downing St. memo??

Have people forgotten about this?

Will it make a difference when Blair is impeached??

[Mr_Spock]

7. They must be flooded with the facts...

I think they need the info 1000 times over, I agree...

[kpete]

8. Don't you see the hypocrisy?

57% of Americans believe that THEY are the ones who are being dishonest on Iraq. The fact that they are misleading in their video after misleading us into war, is in my opinion, the epitome of hypocrisy!!!