Mission accomplished for Iran
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
05/14/07
With its usual tin ear for public relations, the Bush administration provided another ‘Kodak moment’ of incompetent belligerence by yet again sending a high-level administration official to use an aircraft carrier as a prop for a hawkish rant. Vice President Dick Cheney did manage to refrain from displaying another ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner during his address to the crew of the John C. Stennis, stationed 150 miles off Iran’s coast. But as Cheney warned Iran against disrupting oil transportation routes or getting nuclear weapons, the speech’s imagery also reminded the American public of President Bush’s previous fiasco on another aircraft carrier. Yet Cheney’s speech may have more adverse implications for U.S. security than Bush’s earlier public relations disaster...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1967
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mission+accomplished
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+C.+Stennis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
05/14/07
With its usual tin ear for public relations, the Bush administration provided another ‘Kodak moment’ of incompetent belligerence by yet again sending a high-level administration official to use an aircraft carrier as a prop for a hawkish rant. Vice President Dick Cheney did manage to refrain from displaying another ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner during his address to the crew of the John C. Stennis, stationed 150 miles off Iran’s coast. But as Cheney warned Iran against disrupting oil transportation routes or getting nuclear weapons, the speech’s imagery also reminded the American public of President Bush’s previous fiasco on another aircraft carrier. Yet Cheney’s speech may have more adverse implications for U.S. security than Bush’s earlier public relations disaster...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1967
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mission+accomplished
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+C.+Stennis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 15. Mai, 14:52
