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Originally posted by sgtclub
I haven't seen that one. Post a cite if you have it.
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Don't have a cite. A quick google only came up with a bunch of articles, with predictable outlets having predictable views. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna give the Club for Growth site any page hits in the hopes of finding the clip itself.
Here's an
article from '02 describing the ad controversy.
In addition, had not read this before:
- This may be the reason Cleland was defeated. But in its outrage, the Journal somehow fails to mention a notorious Chambliss press release accusing Cleland of "breaking his oath to protect and defend the Constitution." The alleged evidence? Cleland's vote for a successful 1997 amendment to the chemical weapons treaty (supported by several prominent Republican senators) that removed language barring inspectors from certain countries from being part of United Nations inspection teams in Iraq -- hardly sufficient grounds for such a grave and inflammatory charge.
As syndicated columnist Mark Shields has argued:
This is not the usual garbage of cheap political campaigns. This comes close to a charge of treason. To break that oath --"to defend ... against all enemies foreign and domestic" -- which Max Cleland first took as a young Army second lieutenant before volunteering for combat in Vietnam in 1967 and then took again following his 1996 election to the Senate -- would be nothing less than an act of deliberate disloyalty to his nation.
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"Breaking his oath"? That, my friend, is taking a policy dispute and making it a smear.
