Another year of denial?
Tom Paine
by Don Monkerud
07/06/07
Rather than beginning at the beginning of the discredited ’save the world from WMD’ invasion of Iraq, step back one year ago, when Bush went on the offensive to help Republicans win midterm elections. Back then, Bush claimed the capture of al-Zarqawi (remember him?) was ‘the turning point’ in Iraq and the tide was turning in favor of the U.S. Not the first time for a tidal change since the infamous aircraft carrier ‘victory speech,’ but a starting point for an evaluation. … Despite horrifically bad news pouring in from Iraq, the president and the GOP declared the U.S. would be ‘victorious’ because the troops knew ‘their cause was noble.’ GOP House Speaker Hastert declared, Democrats lacked ‘the will to win,’ suggested they were unpatriotic, and guaranteed that 2006 was ‘a year of significant transition’ in Iraq...
http://tinyurl.com/2nuote
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hastert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Don+Monkerud
by Don Monkerud
07/06/07
Rather than beginning at the beginning of the discredited ’save the world from WMD’ invasion of Iraq, step back one year ago, when Bush went on the offensive to help Republicans win midterm elections. Back then, Bush claimed the capture of al-Zarqawi (remember him?) was ‘the turning point’ in Iraq and the tide was turning in favor of the U.S. Not the first time for a tidal change since the infamous aircraft carrier ‘victory speech,’ but a starting point for an evaluation. … Despite horrifically bad news pouring in from Iraq, the president and the GOP declared the U.S. would be ‘victorious’ because the troops knew ‘their cause was noble.’ GOP House Speaker Hastert declared, Democrats lacked ‘the will to win,’ suggested they were unpatriotic, and guaranteed that 2006 was ‘a year of significant transition’ in Iraq...
http://tinyurl.com/2nuote
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hastert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Don+Monkerud
rudkla - 9. Jul, 11:21
