WTF Is It Now?!?

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Certain folks on the right are pontificating that Dan Rather must quit, CBS should shut down, etc etc etc, despite the fact that both have now acknowledged they made a mistake and acted on documents that they cannot verify.

And yet... and yet... isn't this PRECISELY what Bush did? From early on, he wanted to go after Iraq, perhaps for reasons best left to Freudians... and so he listened to the neocons and disregarded those who urged caution, and further investigation, and off we went to war, without waiting for the UN, without waiting for the inspection process to be completed - and at what price.

However, unlike Rather and CBS, long after it's apparent that he misled us into war, Bush will NOT admit there are any troubles.

I mean for chrissakes - while civilians are having their heads sawed off, Bush is still telling us how WELL things are going in Iraq, how he did the right thing, how he's still doing the right thing - and that if he had it all to do over again he would do everything EXACTLY the same way.

Umm... so... Rather should be canned, but Bush should be re-elected??? Didn't Bush do the same thing that Rather did? Though on a far vaster and pricier scale in every sense? He heard what he wanted to hear, ignored the warnings, and went where he wanted to go. We all are paying the price for Bush's mistakes.

I just don't get it.

- JudithA.