September 13, 2003

Sacrilegious spinning
"[R]epeatedly, deliberately, the president connected the dots between Sept. 11 and the war in Iraq. Since 'those deadly attacks on our country,' he said, 'we have carried the fight to the enemy.' 'For America,' he said, 'there will be no going back to the era before Sept. 11 -- to false comfort in a dangerous world.' And finally, he told Americans that we are fighting the enemy today, 'so that we do not meet him again on our own streets in our own cities.'

"The trouble is that the dots he connected are cartoon bubbles drawn by the White House and its speechmakers." - - Ellen Goodman.

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