By Tina Grazier
Negative talk about the war finds anti-war Democrats grinning from ear to ear. When it comes to positive news they will go to any lengths to shut those people upeven when they know what theyre talking about.
An Investors Business Daily editorial reveals a pretty stinky addition to defense legislation that the House recently passed:
Democrats have decided this election year that American voters can’t handle the fact that victory in Iraq is at hand. ** In its passage last week of the defense policy bill, the House issued a prohibition against the Pentagon’s “concerted effort to propagandize” the American public regarding the Iraq War. ** It came in the form of an amendment authored by Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., which also would authorize an investigation of the Defense Department’s “propaganda” efforts by the Government Accountability Office. ** According to Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., the Hodes provision could end up classifying even the U.S. Marines’ slogan, “The Few, the Proud, the Marines,” as a “concerted effort to propagandize” in violation of the law.
We’ve heard from various military spokespersons over the past 5 years and they have not always spoken favorably about the war. In fact many spoke against Bush policies in Iraq. So whats the big problem here? Could it be that General Petreaus, for instance, was so credibleso good at just saying how things were going, no embellishment, no polish or shinethat they fear the American people will believe we are winning? I guess we cant have that…not in an election year.
What is wrong with these people? You’d think they didn’t have anything to offer the American people themselves the way they run around trying to shut other people up. Hmmmm….