A Veteran of Empty Rhetoric Takes Broken Promises to VFW Gathering

[MaineDem]

For Immediate Release
August 22, 2005

Contact: Josh Earnest - 202-863-8148

A Veteran of Empty Rhetoric Takes Broken Promises to VFW Gathering

Washington, DC - Amid dropping poll numbers and dissent within his own
party over the direction of the War in Iraq, today in Utah, President
Bush kicks off a weeklong effort to defend his failed policies.
Yesterday, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), said that, "we're not
winning" in Iraq.

This is the second in the past few days in which the Bush
Administration has sought to defend its' policies to American's
veterans. Vice President Cheney was dispatched to Springfield, Missouri
to plead the White House's case to the Military Order of the Purple
Heart. This week, President Bush takes that same tired message to
members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Salt Lake City.

"President Bush never misses an opportunity to use our nation's
veterans and the heroes fighting the war on terrorism as political
props," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
"When it comes to providing those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan
with a clear plan for victory, or providing those who have left the
battlefield with the benefits they have earned defending freedom, this
President has failed every time.

It's time for the Republicans in Washington, DC to stop fighting
Democratic efforts to keep our promise to America's veterans and start
fighting for our servicemen and women and the values they've risked
their lives to defend."

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