RNC campaign ad could and should be used against Bush - check this out...

[Postman]

http://www.hillnews.com/marshall/112603.aspx

The RNC ad kicks off with some classic Bush scare talk from the State of the Union address: “It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.” Then the ad follows up with a palpable untruth, the line about how the president’s critics are “attacking the President for attacking the terrorists.”

Let’s be honest. No one is attacking the president for attacking terrorists.

Some of the Democratic candidates are attacking the president for going to war against Iraq. Others are attacking him for conducting the war and the subsequent occupation ineptly.

But none of them (and pretty much no Democrat anywhere) is criticizing the president for taking too tough a line against al Qaeda or any other terrorists.

The same goes for the last line of the ad: “Tell them to support the President’s policy of preemptive self-defense.”

I haven’t heard any Democrat say we shouldn’t attack first anyone who is going to attack us. That’s just common sense.

The key to this whole RNC ad is a premise that was never persuasive to start with and is now increasingly discredited: namely, that an attack on Iraq was an attack on the terrorists and that attacking Iraq would make it less likely that those terrorists would attack Americans with car bombs, planes, germs, chemicals or anything else.

We’ve seen in recent weeks that we’re fighting a vicious insurgency inside Iraq. The president calls it the “central front” in the war on terror.

But the fact that people — who we’re not even sure — are using terrorist tactics against our troops in Iraq isn’t a sign of the wisdom of the president’s policy. It’s a sign of its failure.


.....Retired General Wesley Clark came the closest to hittin gon this point in his response to Brokaw last night...