GOP survey question on terror draws ire

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=ap/republicans_survey

WASHINGTON - A Republican voter survey used to raise political money identifies Thailand and the Philippines as countries that "harbor and aid terrorists," a description that has angered officials from the two nations.

A question on the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Ask America 2004 Nationwide Policy Survey" asks, "Should America broaden the war on terrorism into other countries that harbor and aid terrorists such as Thailand, Syria, Somalia, the Philippines, etc.?"

Accompanying the survey, which also poses questions about health care, the economy and other issues, was a four-page letter signed by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., which asks for a donation to help "keep the Republican Party in control of the U.S. House."

Officials from both countries say they've been wrongly labeled and would contact the NRCC to complain. Both countries have been praised by the Bush administration for their roles in the anti-terror war.

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[maggrwaggr]

1. Bush the "uniter", uniting the world against the U.S.

I'm starting to like Bush, he's the best thing that's happened to anybody who hates the GOP in YEARS

[bluestateguy]

2. Smooth

Not that it will be the College Republicans or the party donors (or their spoiled brat children) who have to put on a unifrom and actually fight in all these proposed wars.

[peterh]

3. The heck with Thailand and the Philippines….

The biggest terrorist group this century happens to be in our frontyard…GOP…now that gets my dander up….

[Trajan]

4. Hastert just fell into old habits ....

He 'hates' them funny lookin terrorists there in the Phillipines and Thailand ...

How was HE to know that Bush suckered them into compliance ???

DennyBoy CANT know EVERYTHING; so STOP SAYING THAT ! ..