Long hot summer in Crawford, TX
Actually, all over, it's just hot as hell this summer. Hotter for some than others.
How many people watched Inside 9/11 on National Geographic Channel? I haven't watched it yet, but it should be interesting to hear the chatter. It has been almost 4 years since that fateful Tuesday morning when America, startled and confused, woke up energized and intent on fighting, hunting down and killing terrorists. More than 2 years and over 1,860 dead U.S. soldiers, are more Americans realizing the distinction between the attacks of 9/11 and the current war in Iraq?
When you start looking more and more at the bill of sale from the President and his administration, you feel a little more shortchanged each and every day. Another day, another dead soldier, and for what exactly?
Frank Rich, from the New York Times, gets it right when he talks about one fallen soldier's mother:
When the Bush mob attacks critics like Ms. Sheehan, its highest priority is to change the subject. If we talk about Richard Clarke's character, then we stop talking about the administration's pre-9/11 inattentiveness to terrorism. If Thomas Wilson is trashed as an insubordinate plant of the "liberal media," we forget the Pentagon's abysmal failure to give our troops adequate armor (a failure that persists today, eight months after he spoke up). If we focus on Joseph Wilson's wife, we lose the big picture of how the administration twisted intelligence to gin up the threat of Saddam's nonexistent W.M.D.'s.
The hope this time was that we'd change the subject to Cindy Sheehan's "wacko" rhetoric and the opportunistic left-wing groups that have attached themselves to her like barnacles. That way we would forget about her dead son. But if much of the 24/7 media has taken the bait, much of the public has not.
At nearly $6,000,000,000.00 (thats billions) a month on the U.S. Treasury credit card, you would think the President and his administration would have a clearer direction and vision for their invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, but apparantly that would be too much to ask.
But don't take my word for it, listen to the President at work:
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
That's President Bush from a Social Security Conversation in New York, on May 24, 2005.
Just because you repeat something over and over and over, doesn't make it true.
How many people watched Inside 9/11 on National Geographic Channel? I haven't watched it yet, but it should be interesting to hear the chatter. It has been almost 4 years since that fateful Tuesday morning when America, startled and confused, woke up energized and intent on fighting, hunting down and killing terrorists. More than 2 years and over 1,860 dead U.S. soldiers, are more Americans realizing the distinction between the attacks of 9/11 and the current war in Iraq?
When you start looking more and more at the bill of sale from the President and his administration, you feel a little more shortchanged each and every day. Another day, another dead soldier, and for what exactly?
Frank Rich, from the New York Times, gets it right when he talks about one fallen soldier's mother:
When the Bush mob attacks critics like Ms. Sheehan, its highest priority is to change the subject. If we talk about Richard Clarke's character, then we stop talking about the administration's pre-9/11 inattentiveness to terrorism. If Thomas Wilson is trashed as an insubordinate plant of the "liberal media," we forget the Pentagon's abysmal failure to give our troops adequate armor (a failure that persists today, eight months after he spoke up). If we focus on Joseph Wilson's wife, we lose the big picture of how the administration twisted intelligence to gin up the threat of Saddam's nonexistent W.M.D.'s.
The hope this time was that we'd change the subject to Cindy Sheehan's "wacko" rhetoric and the opportunistic left-wing groups that have attached themselves to her like barnacles. That way we would forget about her dead son. But if much of the 24/7 media has taken the bait, much of the public has not.
At nearly $6,000,000,000.00 (thats billions) a month on the U.S. Treasury credit card, you would think the President and his administration would have a clearer direction and vision for their invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, but apparantly that would be too much to ask.
But don't take my word for it, listen to the President at work:
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
That's President Bush from a Social Security Conversation in New York, on May 24, 2005.
Just because you repeat something over and over and over, doesn't make it true.
posted by Mark Stufft at 8/21/2005 11:39:00 PM
1 Comments:
I've got a good idea....why not just criticize over and over and over again instead of actually working to come up with a better plan? I am not a huge fan of W, but actual concrete ideas would be nice instead of constant complaining. Just an observation from the Margarita Lounge.
Hey..Senator. What are we doing this weekend? Cheryl is going out of town for the weekend and I have a free pass Friday and Saturday Night. Give me a call.
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