WTF Is It Now?!?

The stories get stranger by the day
The truths about Iraq that pResident Bush isn't telling

After eight years of Bill Clinton and 32 months of George W. Bush, it isn't news when a president dissembles, misleads, deceives, conceals, fudges or lies. News is something out of the ordinary, such as a president telling the truth.

That's why Bush made headlines Thursday when he said something that was known to everyone--well, everyone except 69 percent of the American people. "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with Sept. 11," he informed reporters.

Apparently the vice president violated Bush's strict policy, which is never to say anything bogus outright when you can effectively communicate it through innuendo, implication and the careful sowing of confusion. - - from an editorial in the conservative Chicago Trib.


In search of an honest answer
We realize that it may go against everything they believe in, but it would sure be nice for a change to get a straight answer from the people in the White House about anything having to do with Iraq.

The daily, patronizing stay-the-course, things-are-getting-better speech becomes more irritating and insulting with each ambush death of an American serviceman. It flies in the face of logic when the same people say they are going to order Reservists to stay on active duty for a year and ask the United Nations to, pretty please, let bygones be bygones, and help us get a handle on things.

It is an expensive fiction demanding blind faith by Americans because no one in the White House seems to feel the need to provide facts to back up their claims. - - another editorial, from the Record.


Giving away the store
Banana republic

For a man who has benefited so greatly through legacy and inheritance, President Bush seems determined to deprive future generations of Americans of their own.

Bush and his neocon cronies have set a course to undo our legacy. Bush is raiding the corpus of the trust and by the time he's finished, all principal - and principles - will have been depleted.

Bush got to be a rich, successful man thanks to his family connections. All along the way, from his admission to Andover and Yale, to the rescue of his foundering oil business, to the Texas Rangers deal, to his move into politics, Bush was able to rely on paisans to come out ahead.

Now it is payback and he's protecting his own. - - snipped from a St Petersburg Times editorial.