The democrats have no shame...scum bags!
Democrats Start Anti-Bush Ad Campaign
Mon Jul 21, 3:41 AM ET
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
CRAWFORD, Texas - Democrats are launching a television ad that accuses President Bush (news - web sites) of misleading Americans on the nuclear threat from Iraq
Republicans urged broadcasters not to carry the ad, set to be aired initially Monday in Madison, Wis., then elsewhere; they called it "deliberately false and misleading."
The Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) has been raising money through an e-mail campaign that began July 10 to help finance the ad, which sharply questions Bush's veracity on Iraq's weapons.
The ad says: "In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush told us of an imminent threat. ... America took him at his word."
The video shows Bush saying, "Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
The ad continues: "But now we find out it wasn't true.
"A year earlier, that claim was proven false. The CIA (news - web sites) knew it. The State Department knew it. The White House knew it.
"But he told us anyway."
Republicans claim the ad improperly quotes Bush because his entire statement was: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
DNC spokesman Tony Welch said: "With the British in there, the president's information is still false and misleading. It is exactly what the president said."
Some Republicans have argued Bush's statement was technically accurate because it attributed the findings about uranium to the British.
"You can say whatever you want in a fund-raiser," Republican spokesman Jim Dyke said, "but it steps over the line when you knowingly mislead people in your advertising."
Welch said the ad would be aired in Madison for about a week at a cost of nearly $20,000.
Efforts to get comment from Madison TV stations were not successful Sunday.
The ad squabble comes at a time when public trust in the president has been eroding, according to results released Sunday from a CNN-Time poll.
The poll found that 47 percent view Bush as a leader they can trust, while 51 percent said they have doubts and reservations. That's down from 56 percent who saw him as a leader they could trust in late March, with 41 percent having doubts.
The poll of 1,004 people taken Wednesday and Thursday had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. |
