SocraticGadfly: Sen. John Cornyn: Passing the buck on Iraq

November 09, 2006

Sen. John Cornyn: Passing the buck on Iraq

Cornyn, in Lancaster Thursday to speak to a special joint Lancaster/Best Southwest Chamber of Commerce luncheon, repeated the standard post-election GOP talking points, plus a few more.
1. Iraq is the Democrats’ problem.

2. Nobody is talking about “stay the course” anymore.

3. Iraq part of the “war on terror,” with Cornyn carefully phrasing early comments to allow listeners to infer that he believes Iraq/Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda/Osama bin Laden were connected before Sept. 11, 2001

4. Claiming nobody expected an attack on civilians, conveniently overlooking the infamous Aug. 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing, entitled: “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.”

I’m sure most of the audience thought every word he said was gospel truth.

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