Posted on 09/28/2003 10:28:22 AM PDT by quidnunc
President Bill Clinton was impeached by a Republican-controlled Congress for lying about sex. President George W. Bush and aides lied the United States into a stupid, unnecessary colonial war that has so far killed more than 305 Americans and seriously wounded more than 1,400. It has also cost many thousands of Iraqi dead, and $1 billion US weekly.
Lying about sex is an impeachable offence; lying the nation into war apparently is not.
I was no Clinton fan, but give me his iffy morals any day over Bush's Mussolini-like strutting. Sen. Edward Kennedy is absolutely correct when he calls Bush's Iraq war a "fraud" concocted to win the next elections.
A fraud and an epic blunder.
Last week, Bush received a glacial and scornful reception at the United Nations that symbolized the world's contempt and disgust for his administration. Not since Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe on the speaker's rostrum has a major leader so embarrassed himself and his nation before the world body.
In his UN speech, Bush again claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and "ties" to terrorism. Days later, U.S. intelligence teams that scoured Iraq for four months reported no traces of weapons or terrorism links — the pretext used by Bush and his neo-conservative handlers for unprovoked war against Saddam Hussein.
The White House was left choking on its own grotesque lies.
Incredibly, VP Dick Cheney, a prime architect of the Iraq war, actually claimed recently that Iraq still had mobile germ labs, though U.S. and British inspectors debunked this claim last June. The "special" intelligence network created by neo-conservatives is still apparently feeding disinformation to America's leadership.
This latest humiliation came only days after Bush finally admitted Iraq was not, as most Americans were misled into believing, behind the 9/11 attacks.
No wonder world leaders gave Bush the cold shoulder, and even usually timid UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned against "dangerous acts of unilateralism" — a pointed reference to the bellicose Bush administration.
Unfortunately, many Americans still do not understand how gravely the Bush White House has damaged and sullied their nation's once noble reputation.
Recent polls show that even among traditional friends abroad, America is no longer regarded as a champion of freedom, democracy and human rights, but increasingly as a dangerous aggressor bent on imperial domination and exploitation.
America's most precious and proudest asset, its moral reputation, has been gravely damaged by the Bush White House. The only positive note: rising anti-Americanism is largely associated in the eyes of non-Americans with the persona of George Bush, a man who projects almost all the negative stereotypes foreigners hold of Americans.
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No, he wasn't.
Not too good a leader, though.
The worst. Yes including BC. Carter did more long term harm to this nation and he knew exactly what he was doing.
Well, that is the picture being painted by the media. I certainly hope it is wrong, though I concede the possibility of it being right. I don't believe we know the true picture of what's going on there, except that most Iraqis are glad to be out from under Saddam.
"if Gore were President, for instance -- I would imagine that the criticism from the right would be far more intense and would have started far earlier on (like the day after 9/11)."
I think that would depend on Gore's actions after 9/11. I did note that the Left was uncharacteristically silent for a couple weeks after 9/11. I think they were so stunned they couldn't figure out how to spin it right away.
"Do not confuse holding a politician responsible for his errors (which are many) with "doing their best to make this thing a failure."
I doubt I am guilty of that. Actually I think, regardless of whether the Left is pointing out Bush's errors, the Left is doing it's best to create failure. I believe even casual examination shows it to have started months before we even went in to Iraq.
ALL LIES!!
Plus, clinton/clark activities almost lead us into WWIII with the Russians over that airport incident in Pristina.
What is about clinton foreign policy supporters... they are beyond ignorant.
Of Course, there wasn't an imminent threat of WMD. If you would recall prior to the war, Bush was heavily critized because Iraq wasn't an imminent threat. It's only after the war that the democrats are revising what Bush said. Turning Bush's position that Saddam supporting terrorist groups into saddam planning 9-11, and turning non-imminent into imminent.
You would halve to throw off the three blankets, various magazines, brush off chip and cookie crumbs, a pistol clean kit, then swing your feet on to the floor off the couch, push away the No. 10 can of butts and ashes, make way through the newspaper piles....and go to the kitchen. That would be the room with the plumbing tools piled on the hot plate/oven thingy.
No, he's an American born in New York.
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