So, I'm heading back to my hometown, which is on the border of a Red State. I just read the hometown paper and noticed a family friend of the GOP persuasion had written a diatribe against Dems, and I just gotta respond. Here's the problem though, I have to travel today, and I'm in law school so I've got class all day and then a trip ahead of me. Thus, no time to write. If I could ask the dKos community for some help in deconstructing this guy's argument, and putting together some snippets I can use in a Letter to the Editor, I'd truly appreciate it, and we'd be better for it
I've got the letter to the editor from the Rethug in the body of this post.
Here is the noted persons letter to the editor that appeared today:
"There are people that continue to insist that President Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction, in order to sell the American people on the necessity of going to war in Iraq. These people are either uninformed or political partisans bent on destroying the administration for their own political gain.
I have heard the sound bites of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and others in the Democratic Party voice the same concerns as President Bush about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. If you have not heard these sound bites or read about them in your mainstream media, then I would suggest that you need to search out other sources of information. Please change the channel, read something different, or perform a little Internet research, because you have not received the truth from your existing media sources.
The politicians and pundits who continue with this misrepresentation know better. They know that prior to the war in Iraq many of their friends in the Democratic Party and around the world viewed the same intelligence as President Bush, and voiced the same concerns. Now they want to pretend that only President Bush was voicing concerns over Saddam Hussein's quest for nuclear and biological weapons.
When they tell the world that our president is a liar and that the war is unjust, they not only spread doubt in our country, but they foster anti-American sentiment around the globe. They give our enemies aid and comfort, and reams of propaganda to recruit more terrorists. They are putting the interests of their party ahead of the interests of our nation. This is the height of irresponsible partisan politics."