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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Yang, AthD h.c" |
| Date: |
30 Jun 2007 09:57:55 AM |
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Bush, Almost as Perscient As Fred Stone |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html
Bush and Vice President Cheney's optimistic predictions about the
Middle East in general and Iraq in particular have proved to be almost
completely and consistently wrong for years now. ("Last throes,"
anyone?)
Before the 2006 election, White House political guru Karl Rove was
supremely self-assured in his public predictions of Republican
victory.
White House spokesman Tony Snow recently assured the press corps that
Bush had enough votes in the Senate on the immigration bill. "I'll see
you at the bill signing," Bush himself told a skeptical journalist on
June 11.
Bush and his staff's credibility regarding statements of "fact" is a
frequent subject of debate. But their track record on predictions is
something else entirely. The evidence is pretty overwhelming that
those predictions are unreliable.
I mention this because Bush's core argument against a troop drawdown
in Iraq -- something supported by a large majority of Americans -- is
basically a prediction. As he put it again yesterday: "If we withdraw
before the Iraqi government can defend itself, we would yield the
future of Iraq to terrorists like al Qaeda -- and we would give a
green light to extremists all throughout a troubled region. The
consequences for America and the Middle East would be disastrous."
--
Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
The Bush 'balanced' budget: -3 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -3578 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
newsgroups Yang promises not to revenge post
in response to Sound-of-Trumpet's *****:
rec.art.scifi.written
sci.archaeology
soc.history.what-if
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