GOP plan exposed: Exploit 9/11; Attack opponents; Create a false choice.

[ProSense]

EXCLUSIVE: Majority Leader Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo For Thursday’s Iraq Debate

On Thursday, the House of Representatives will hold a debate on the Iraq war. Media reports say Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) “hopes to match the serious, dignified tone of deliberation that preceded the Gulf war, in 1991.”

ThinkProgress has obtained a “Confidential Messaging Memo” from Boehner instructing his caucus to conduct a very different kind of deliberation. Here’s a quick summary:

1. Exploit 9/11. The two page memo mentions 9/11 seven times. It describes debating Iraq in the context of 9/11 as “imperative.”

2. Attack opponents ad hominem. The memo describes those who opposes President Bush’s policies in Iraq as “sheepish,” “weak,” and “prone to waver endlessly.”

3. Create a false choice. The memo says the decision is between supporting President Bush’s policies and hoping terrorist threats will “fade away on their own.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/14/boehner-memo

http://www.thinkprogress.org/confidential-boehner-memo

View the original PDF of this memo:

http://images1.americanprogress.org/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2006/boehnermemo.pdf

[BOSSHOG]

1. Yo bone-head

I oppose bush and you and I'm not sheepish or weak. And thanks so much for changing the tone in America. And let us never forget that bush's supporters eat this shit up. They are shit eaters, very slowly destroying our country and fueled by the shit spewed by the likes of bone-head and bush and limbaugh and coulter. bush supporters are garbage. They are enemies of the constitution and bone-head knows they are lemmings just waiting for the next turd.

[Mz Pip]

2. How Goering-like

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

And it worked.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[tulsakatz]

3. in other words.........

....keep doing the same crap they've been doing for the past 6 yrs.

[fooj]

4. Now that this is common knowledge...

when can we expect a member of Congress or a Senator to stand up and call them on it?