Snow stumps in Indiana
Maureen Groppe of Gannett News Service reports:
After campaign help by the president and his wife, the vice president and his wife, and former first lady Barbara Bush, U.S. Rep. Mike Sodrel was running out of top GOP officials to visit his southeastern Indiana district.
Enter White House spokesman Tony Snow.
The Cincinnati native took the unusual approach for a presidential press secretary in hitting the fundraising circuit for candidates this year. He’s scheduled to appear at a luncheon for Sodrel in Jeffersonville Monday.
Snow said in an interview that his appearance doesn’t blur the line between politics and news because "I’ve been careful not to be doing tooth-loosening attacks on Democrats but instead positive advocacy for the president."
In southwestern Indiana, meanwhile, GOP Rep. John Hostettler told the Courier & Press in Evansville that he’s turned down offers of help from the Bush administration primarily because of differences over the Iraq war. Hostettler was one of six House Republicans to vote against the 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq and is reminding voters of that in his advertising.
"There’s some Republicans who clearly disagree with the president," Snow said. Republicans, he added, "don’t kick people out of the party for disagreeing, as opposed to Joe Lieberman who was basically run out of the Democratic Party in Connecticut."
Asked if Bush is still as popular in southern Indiana as he was in 2004 when Bush carried Hostettler’s district with 56 percent and Sodrel’s with 59 percent, Snow said he doesn’t know.
"I’m not doing comparative polls," Snow said. "What I do know is that you’ve got a strong president. People are now starting to draw contrasts between the Democratic Party that decided ... not to have any alternatives this year. Basically they’re sitting around, complaining about the president. The president is being aggressive about tackling the hard issues. I think there’s a difference between a dynamic conservative Republican president fully engaged on keeping American safe and also building greater strength for the economy and a Democratic Party that’s decided to sit on the sidelines and jeers."
In addition to helping Sodrel, Snow said he would also be doing an event for Rep. Chris Chocola before the Nov. 7 election.
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at 11:20 AM, October 28, 2006 
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Post a Comment*The War to Deceive America Into War -- And the War to Cover Up the Deception
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
Before America went to war with Afghanistan, another war was underway -- against its own people: the war to deceive America into attacking Iraq. This is no longer a theory or conjecture; it is a documented fact.
Those in the Mainstream Media, including the New York Times and Washington Post, who choose to ignore this reality, or couch it in qualifying terms (such as "unproven assertions") are no longer trying to debunk a conspiracy, because the deliberate deception that forced America into war with Iraq is not a conspiracy theory.
SNIP...
Consider just some of the following established facts regarding the Bush administration's orchestrated propaganda campaign to deceive America into War:
1) A 2002 (Downing Street) memo is released in Britain in May of 2005 that documents that Blair thought that he had no choice but to go to war because the Bush administration said that it was "going to fix" intelligence to start one.
2) In early June of 2005, a British paper reveals that the U.S. and U.K. flew sorties over Iraq in 2002 to provoke Saddam Hussein and destroy his anti-aircraft infrastructure in preparation for the war. Congressman John Conyers calls this the smoking bullet in the smoking gun.
3) All the Bushevik warnings of WMDs are proven false -- all of them. Not a single WMD was found.
4) Dick Cheney lurked around the CIA prior to the Iraq War putting pressure on analysts to "fix" the data.
5) The analysts who came up with the false allegations that "aluminum tubes" were being used for nuclear enrichment story were promoted by the Bush Administration and given bonuses.
6) Richard Clarke says that Bush personally took him aside and told him to make the facts work for a war with Iraq.
7) Former Secretary of the Treasury O'Neill wrote in his memoirs that Bush was out to get Iraq from the moment he was sworn in.
8) The PNAC (Project for the New American Century) plea to invade Iraq was written in the late 90s, primarily by Bush Neo-cons who guided us into the war.
9) The Bush Administration outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative specializing in -- ironically and tragically -- tracking the illicit sale and movement of Weapons of Mass Destruction because her courageous husband, Joe Wilson, exposed the Niger documents as a fraud. Thus, the Bush Administration put the national security at risk regarding WMDs to seek vengeance on someone for exposing their phony war based on a lie about WMDs.
10) This past weekend, it was revealed that John Bolton had a U.N. official fired for trying to seek a peaceful way out of the Iraq War, in regards to Iraq's compliance with chemical weapons accords.
11) After 9/11, Rumsfeld is quoted as saying that the U.S. would take Saddam and all of "them" out.
12) Advanced forces were sent into Iraq before the war had even started.
13) Rumsfeld set up a Pentagon psy-ops operation to create PR for going to war with Iraq. (He claimed to have closed it down, but he never did.)
14) The Chalabi-Judith Miller-Cheney axis of information was used to claim that created "factoids" were truths, when they were just propaganda. (The New York Times "apologized" for this, but made no changes in its coverage, including keeping Miller on and standing up for her, even though she published lies from a proxy Bush Administration anonymous source.)
15) The Bush Administration, according to various polls, conducted a successful misinformation campaign to make Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was partly responsible for 9/11 and that the hijackers were Iraqi.
CONTINUED...
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/06/edi05050.html
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