MoveOn Continues the Slander

The widespread condemnation certainly hasn't made the creeps from MoveOn.org tone down the rhetoric.

No, they've stepped it up.

Some observers have said MoveOn.org's New York Times ad backfired.


But MoveOn.org isn't backing down. Check out these excerpts from a (lengthy) e-mail sent today to supporters, accusing Gen. Petraeus of stretching the truth and urging like-minded anti-warriors to "send a letter to the editor":

From: Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action
[mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org]
Sent: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:34:44 -0400
Subject: General Petraeus and the Truth

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday, General David Petraeus misled the country.

He used faulty statistics and cherry-picked intelligence to argue that American troops should stay in Iraq for the foreseeable future. The general
said we're making major progress -- and we have to stay the course. Sadly,
independent assessments show that things in Iraq have gone from bad to worse.

Some of you have emailed to say it reminds you of the day four and a half years ago when President Bush sent General Colin Powell to the U.N. to make a trumped-up case for war.

Powell's WMDs helped justify the invasion of Iraq, and Petraeus' version of "progress" -- if it goes unchallenged -- will justify keeping troops there for years. Can you take a few minutes to write a letter-to-the editor reminding folks that the "surge" didn't work -- and that the responsible thing to do is
bring our troops home?

Today is the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in American history. The wounds of 9/11 are still fresh for many of us. After 9/11, President Bush used fear, lies and trumped-up intelligence to stampede us into Iraq.
Now, America is bogged down in an unwinnable civil war, and Al Qaeda has
regained enough strength to once again menace the United States.

It would be a tragic irony if, six years later, the administration used skewed intelligence to head off the growing momentum for an exit strategy
from Iraq.

Please write a letter reminding America and Congress not to fall, ever again, for White House lies -- we need a timeline to bring our troops home.

Thanks for all that you do,

-- Nita, Karin, Laura, Eli, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team, Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Disgusting people.

Meanwhile, I see one of their antiwar comrades has a bit of a legal problem on his hands.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A U.S. citizen has confessed to using an axe to kill a Dutch student after failing to find a soldier to attack, his lawyer said Tuesday.

The suspect, Carlos Hartmann, 41, of Tecumseh, Mich., has confessed to the Sept. 8 killing on a train platform in the southern city of Roosendaal, defence lawyer Peter Gremmen said.

Gremmen said Hartmann wanted to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq.

Hartmann appeared before a judge Tuesday and was ordered held for another two weeks for investigation.

"He hates soldiers, and says that the army kills people, so it would be legitimate if he were also to kill someone . . . from the American military - or from its NATO allies," Gremmen said in a telephone interview.

When he failed to find a soldier at the Roosendaal train station, "he got such a crazy, disturbed idea that he killed a civilian," Gremmen said.

UPDATE: More from Bryan at Hot Air.