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"Harry Hope" |
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17 Apr 2004 03:33:52 PM |
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Bush may have just dug America deeper into the Iraqi quagmire. |
From The Toronto Star, 4/17/04:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1081980905304
Deeper into the quagmire
Bush has recommitted himself to the same disastrous course in Iraq
that has brought him, and America, so much grief
By HAROON SIDDIQUI
George W. Bush may have just dug America deeper into the Iraqi
quagmire.
While American troops are launching new offensives to recapture lost
cities -- in effect, trying to re-win the war "won" one year ago --
the president has recommitted himself to the same disastrous course
that has brought him, and America, so much grief at home and abroad.
In his Tuesday news conference, and in earlier comments, Bush refused
to come down from his mountain of dishonesty.
Besides not answering questions put to him by reporters -- why does he
need ***** Cheney to babysit him before the 9/11 commission, and why
did he not bestir himself in 2001 despite being warned, specifically,
of an Osama bin Laden plot, possibly involving hijackings, to attack
New York -- Bush is still peddling his fiction on Iraq, with new
twists.
Unfettered by the absence of weapons of mass destruction or proof that
Iraq had any links to Al Qaeda or posed any danger to Americans, he
continues to insist that "Saddam Hussein was a threat to the region,
he was a threat to the U.S."
Continuing the tactics of scaring Americans into supporting him, Bush
is now telling them that staying on in Iraq is essential to their
safety.
This he does by, first, dismissing widespread Iraqi resistance to
American occupation as the work of isolated "violent gangs," Saddam
supporters and some foreign terrorists.
If so, why is British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, contrary to the
assertions of his own boss Tony Blair, saying that "it is plainly the
fact that large numbers of people -- Iraqis, not foreign fighters --
are engaged in this insurgency"?
Why are Spain, Ukraine and even Kazakhstan threatening to pull their
contingents out of Iraq?
Why is Bush phoning the leaders of other coalition countries to shore
up their resolve?
Why are members of the American-appointed Governing Council openly
criticizing Washington?
And why did the U.S.-trained police forces -- said to be 77,000 of
them -- melt at the first sight of resistance, and some even join it?
Secondly, Bush has broadened the definition of Iraqi militants as
those belonging to the same sort of terrorist network that hit Spain,
Indonesia, Pakistan, Israel, America and Yemen in the last few years,
as well as American troops in Lebanon as far back as a quarter of a
century ago.
Al Qaeda was never present in Lebanon or Israel.
But that does not deter the president from his re-election campaign
theme:
"The defeat of violence and terror in Iraq is vital to the defeat of
violence and terror elsewhere, and vital, therefore, to the safety of
the American people."
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What hogwash.
Harry
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| User: "Sokar" |
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| Title: Re: Bush may have just dug America deeper into the Iraqi quagmire. |
17 Apr 2004 07:27:43 PM |
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Duuuhhhh.... the headline says 'Deeper into the quagmire'.... huhuhuhu. It
must be true!
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:655380h1g825bd0floh80rat3u0dps314q@4ax.com...
From The Toronto Star, 4/17/04:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1081980905304
Deeper into the quagmire
Bush has recommitted himself to the same disastrous course in Iraq
that has brought him, and America, so much grief
By HAROON SIDDIQUI
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| User: "Chris the Liberal" |
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| Title: Re: Bush may have just dug America deeper into the Iraqi quagmire. |
17 Apr 2004 09:01:14 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:<655380h1g825bd0floh80rat3u0dps314q@4ax.com>...
From The Toronto Star, 4/17/04:
Besides not answering questions put to him by reporters -- why does he
need ***** Cheney to babysit him before the 9/11 commission,
There have been some wonderful cartoons the last few days, with
GWB sitting on Cheney's lap, and Cheney petting him like a baby (or
a dog).
One has the commission asking George if he would like to have his
own chair, and Cheney (like Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) replies,
"No he prefers to sit right here" (on Cheney's knee).
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| User: "Miles Long" |
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| Title: Re: Bush may have just dug America deeper into the Iraqi quagmire. |
17 Apr 2004 09:06:33 PM |
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Chris the Liberal wrote:
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:<655380h1g825bd0floh80rat3u0dps314q@4ax.com>...
From The Toronto Star, 4/17/04:
Besides not answering questions put to him by reporters -- why does he
need ***** Cheney to babysit him before the 9/11 commission,
There have been some wonderful cartoons the last few days, with
GWB sitting on Cheney's lap, and Cheney petting him like a baby (or
a dog).
One has the commission asking George if he would like to have his
own chair, and Cheney (like Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) replies,
"No he prefers to sit right here" (on Cheney's knee).
My Favorite was the Cheney Me & GW Mini-Me cartoon...
Miles "Herblock" Long
<wonder how many will recognized this one?>
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