Neil Abercrombie: “clearly this advertisement to which we are referring in which the phrase ``some are now attacking the President for…”

“clearly this advertisement to which we are referring in which the phrase ``some are now attacking the President for attacking the terrorists,'' is meant to reestablish a link between Iraq, the attack in Iraq and 9/11. That is to say, there has been a constant drum-beat attempt by those who advocated this war in Iraq that this was somehow an extension or expansion or movement toward a more direct attack on terrorism, whereas no link has been established between the attack on the Trade Towers and the plane crashing in Pennsylvania, no link has been established between that and this attack on Iraq. To the contrary, there is more than ample evidence to indicate that there were policymakers around the President who wanted to have this attack on Iraq well before 9/11, and 9/11 became the excuse for them to bring this back up, move it into the forefront and, in fact, displace the war on terror, the response to the attack on terror. That is, in fact, not just what was implied in this ad, but this is clearly an attempt on a political basis to try to reestablish that in the minds of Americans across the Nation so that this becomes a defense of this failed policy in Iraq.”