An impartial interrogation of George W. Bush
The Nation
by George McGovern
Senator George McGovern delivered these remarks at the National Press Club January 12. They are published here as part of Moral Compass, a series focusing on the spoken word. “I’m glad to be back at the National Press Club. Indeed, at the age of eighty-four, I’m glad to be anywhere. In my younger years when the subject of aging came up, trying to sound worldly wise, I would say, ‘It doesn’t matter so much the number of years you have, but what you do with those years.’ I don’t say that anymore. I now want to reach a hundred. Why? Because I thoroughly enjoy life and there are so many things I must still do before entering the mystery beyond. The most urgent of these is to get American soldiers out of the Iraqi hellhole Bush-Cheney and their neoconservative theorists have created in what was once called the cradle of civilization. It is believed to be the location of the Garden of Eden. I mention the neoconservative theorists to recall Walter Lippman’s observance, ‘There is nothing so dangerous as a belligerent professor’...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070129/mcgovern
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+McGovern
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neoconservative
by George McGovern
Senator George McGovern delivered these remarks at the National Press Club January 12. They are published here as part of Moral Compass, a series focusing on the spoken word. “I’m glad to be back at the National Press Club. Indeed, at the age of eighty-four, I’m glad to be anywhere. In my younger years when the subject of aging came up, trying to sound worldly wise, I would say, ‘It doesn’t matter so much the number of years you have, but what you do with those years.’ I don’t say that anymore. I now want to reach a hundred. Why? Because I thoroughly enjoy life and there are so many things I must still do before entering the mystery beyond. The most urgent of these is to get American soldiers out of the Iraqi hellhole Bush-Cheney and their neoconservative theorists have created in what was once called the cradle of civilization. It is believed to be the location of the Garden of Eden. I mention the neoconservative theorists to recall Walter Lippman’s observance, ‘There is nothing so dangerous as a belligerent professor’...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070129/mcgovern
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+McGovern
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neoconservative
rudkla - 18. Jan, 15:20
