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"Harry Hope" |
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04 May 2004 05:58:45 PM |
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Well how about that! Right-winger George Will rips George W. Bush |
From The Washington Post, 5/4/04:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64323-2004May3.html
Time for Bush to See The Realities of Iraq
By George F. Will
Tuesday, May 4, 2004; Page A25
Oh?
Who?
Appearing Friday in the Rose Garden with Canada's prime minister,
President Bush was answering a reporter's question about Canada's role
in Iraq when suddenly he swerved into this extraneous thought:
"There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people
whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and
self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that
people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that
people whose skins aren't necessarily -- are a different color than
white can self-govern."
What does such careless talk say about the mind of this
administration?
Note that the clearly implied antecedent of the pronoun "ours" is
"Americans."
So the president seemed to be saying that white is, and brown is not,
the color of Americans' skin.
He does not mean that.
But that is the sort of swamp one wanders into when trying to deflect
doubts about policy by caricaturing and discrediting the doubters.
Scott McClellan, the president's press secretary, later said the
president meant only that "there are some in the world that think that
some people can't be free" or "can't live in freedom."
The president meant that "some Middle Eastern countries -- that the
people in those Middle Eastern countries cannot be free."
Perhaps that, which is problematic enough, is what the president
meant.
But what he suggested was:
Some persons -- perhaps many persons; no names being named, the smear
remained tantalizingly vague -- doubt his nation-building project
because they are racists.
That is one way to respond to questions about the wisdom of thinking
America can transform the entire Middle East by constructing a liberal
democracy in Iraq.
But if any Americans want to be governed by politicians who
short-circuit complex discussions by recklessly imputing racism to
those who differ with them, such Americans do not usually turn to the
Republican choice in our two-party system.
This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be
counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts.
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George Will, ladies and gentlemen.
Harry
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| User: "Joe Myers" |
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| Title: Re: Well how about that! Right-winger George Will rips George W. Bush |
04 May 2004 06:21:03 PM |
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Time for Bush to See The Realities of Iraq
By George F. Will
Tuesday, May 4, 2004; Page A25
[snip]
This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be
counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts.
Instead of thinking, Bush "listens to God" talking to him.
The last time he gave anything a second thought was on a "Where's Waldo"
puzzle that almost beat him.
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| User: "Gus" |
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| Title: Re: Well how about that! Right-winger George Will rips George W.Bush |
04 May 2004 07:52:34 PM |
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Joe Myers wrote:
Time for Bush to See The Realities of Iraq
By George F. Will
Tuesday, May 4, 2004; Page A25
[snip]
This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be
counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts.
Instead of thinking, Bush "listens to God" talking to him.
That's what's so scary - many people pray, but those who receive answers
are generally put on a regimen of anti-psychotic drugs.
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