"The bad faith of Bush's current argument is staggering. He wants to say that the 'more than a hundred Democrats in the House and Senate' who 'voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power' thereby gave up their right to question his use of intelligence forever after. But he does not want to acknowledge that he forced the war vote to take place under circumstances that guaranteed the minimum amount of reflection and debate, and that opened anyone who dared question his policies to charges, right before an election, that they were soft on Hussein.
By linking the war on terrorism to a partisan war against Democrats, Bush undercut his capacity to lead the nation in this fight. And by resorting to partisan attacks again last week, Bush only reminded us of the shameful circumstances in which the whole thing started."
In this great column, E.J. Dionne explains how what Bush did then was wrong, and his attacks now may be even worse.
SCARE TACTICS ARE A HALLMARK OF THE BUSH REGIME.....WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ANTHRAX SCARE? DID ALL THAT (SUPPOSED) ANTHRAX JUST FLOAT AWAY?
ReplyDeleteSCARE TACTICS ARE A HALLMARK OF THE BUSH REGIME.....WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ANTHRAX SCARE? DID ALL THAT (SUPPOSED) ANTHRAX JUST FLOAT AWAY?
ReplyDeleteIt seems that only one person is re-writing history in this debate, and it is the President.
ReplyDeleteThe experts never said that Iraq and al Qaeda were connected, but Bush did. The experts also said that Iraq wasn't a nuclear threat, but Bush disagreed.
He lied us into war, and now he's trying to lie his way out of trouble.
Not a bad article, except there are only a few mistakes.
ReplyDeleteFitzgerald is not a member of the House or Senate.
On this Bush is correct, every single Repub & Dem that voted yes should be standing side by side saying we screwed up. So far the only one that did was McCain.
Bush didn't force a vote that the House and Senate set themselves. The only way this argument could be correct is if you say that Dem's are incredibly easy to push around, incredibly easy to bully. And basically that Dem's cannot think for themselves as they are stupid enough to hand over a checkbook full of blank, signed checks to anybody on the street.
I don't think that argument could rightly be made. Being a Dem or a Repub does not indicate intelligence. However way they voted - they should be the ones to lead by example and say we - as representatives of the people - messed up.
Which if you did that you would also need to go back and get Clinton (Both of them), Gore, Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy, Bush Sr. etc. to also say, all this time that we knew Saddam had WMD - (oh yeah before George W came along) we were wrong too.