WTF Is It Now?!?

The Swaggering Simian's Top Gun Speech
'George W. Bush's macho performance aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was something straight out of a Michael Deaver fantasy production for Ronald Reagan. Never mind that he was up to his old rhetorical tricks.

'He claimed that war was "our last resort," when, in fact, he refused to allow U.N. weapons inspectors to continue their work.

'He claimed without evidence that Saddam was somehow "an ally of Al Qaeda" and that this war against Iraq somehow avenges the nefarious attacks of September 11. Three times in his speech, Bush explicitly cited that date, and he used lurid rhetoric to remind us of those attacks, saying terrorists tried "to turn our cities into killing fields," and conjuring up "the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble."

'This is Bush's trump card. And even though it's getting worn out because Bush pulls it out at every opportunity, it seems to work for him: He has managed to hoodwink the American people into believing September 11 justifies any military action.' - snipped from Matthew Rothschild's editorial, here.