Frank Rich Article Tells It Like It Is
Frank Rich has a very interesting article over at the NYT. This website will give you a login if you don't already subscribe and don't want to register. Here's some excerpts...
It appears to me (through polls that indicate Americans' support of the war declining further and further) that on the spectrum of support/dissent, there are more people kind of hanging around in the middle, swaying a little left or right, and that those on the ends are those who blindly follow Bush and his policies like a herd of sheep and those who think he's the antichrist with zero redeeming qualities. I admit to be one of those nearing the "antichrist" side, except that I'm not that religious.
The fact is that our troops are in Iraq, and we are there for no reason related to September 11th. That's how this all started, remember? We were going to get Osama Bin Laden, because it was HIS group that brought that horrific day to us. We were going to get him dead or alive.
Then, suddenly, he wasn't a concern.
How anyone can not be ROYALLY PISSED OFF at that still boggles my mind.
Someone Tell the President the War Is Over
...The president's cable cadre is in disarray as well. At Fox News Bill O'Reilly is trashing Donald Rumsfeld for his incompetence, and Ann Coulter is chiding Mr. O'Reilly for being a defeatist. In an emblematic gesture akin to waving a white flag, Robert Novak walked off a CNN set and possibly out of a job rather than answer questions about his role in smearing the man who helped expose the administration's prewar inflation of Saddam W.M.D.'s. (On this sinking ship, it's hard to know which rat to root for.)...
A struggle is what you have with your landlord. When the war's über-managers start using euphemisms for a conflict this lethal, it's a clear sign that the battle to keep the Iraq war afloat with the American public is lost...
It was on these false premises - that Iraq was both a collaborator on 9/11 and about to inflict mushroom clouds on America - that honorable and brave young Americans were sent off to fight...
Only someone as adrift from reality as Mr. Bush would need to be told that a vacationing president can't win a standoff with a grief-stricken parent commandeering TV cameras and the blogosphere 24/7...
It was easier to take out Saddam - and burnish Mr. Bush's credentials as a slam-dunk "war president," suitable for a "Top Gun" victory jig - than to shut down Al Qaeda and smoke out its leader "dead or alive."...
To this day it's our failure to provide that security that has turned the country into the terrorist haven it hadn't been before 9/11 - "the central front in the war on terror," as Mr. Bush keeps reminding us, as if that might make us forget he's the one who recklessly created it.
It appears to me (through polls that indicate Americans' support of the war declining further and further) that on the spectrum of support/dissent, there are more people kind of hanging around in the middle, swaying a little left or right, and that those on the ends are those who blindly follow Bush and his policies like a herd of sheep and those who think he's the antichrist with zero redeeming qualities. I admit to be one of those nearing the "antichrist" side, except that I'm not that religious.
The fact is that our troops are in Iraq, and we are there for no reason related to September 11th. That's how this all started, remember? We were going to get Osama Bin Laden, because it was HIS group that brought that horrific day to us. We were going to get him dead or alive.
Then, suddenly, he wasn't a concern.
How anyone can not be ROYALLY PISSED OFF at that still boggles my mind.
by MG at 7:36 AM
3 Comments:
....but there are white girls missing everywhere.
People forget the details. They remember the outrage at 9/11, sort of, but really don't want to re-live it; they just know they need to feel that somewhere in the world we're KICKIN' SOME ASS to DO something about it. Sad, but true...
No, no people haven't forgotten the details, they've just been glossed over with statements like, "Terrorist haven't attacked the US in the past 4 years" and "We're fighting the terrorist on thier ground." If you had paid attention the reasons for going to war in Iraq has changed 3 or 4 times. 1. W.M.D.'s. 2. Saddam was a bad man. 3. Iraq connected to 9/11. 4. Fighting the terrorist on home soil.
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