Spilled Beans: Boehner's "Confidential Memo: Floor Debate on Iraq"

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

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.”

You can read the confidential memo for yourself HERE:

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

Now they prve it more than ever. I hate them.

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

...and the best part of this, of course, is that in his speech this morning Bush praised the freedom of Americans to have opposing ideas, to say what they think.

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Don't think that we don't do this kind of thing, too.

Same ol..same ol from these slimes.

They should be banned from ever quoting President Kennedy.

I hope they are ready with some really good responses to this bullshit.

You make a great point here...If I'm a Democrat and I have a copy of this in my hand and I'm heading toward a floor debate on Iraq, I'd be so frikkin' PREPARED that it would make heads spin.

We've got to throw that "opponents of the president are weak" garbage right back at 'em.

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Why is it that we always seem to learn about this stuff way ahead of the Dems and their staff?

After all if you are "unaware" how can you be blamed for "being duped"? Ignorance as a defense has been very effective so far.

It all comes back to the same issue, will they further the goal of creating a corporatocracy, or will they oppose it?

and rightfully so.

keep a confidential memo confidential? Hmmm..

9Fucking11 happened on their Watch..when is the Country gonna wake up on that tidbit of Information?