"The president was never honorable in this regard"
To the extent that George Bush had retained the slightest shred of dignity through the whole ugly Iraq imbroglio, it was found in his refusal to fully embrace the biggest of the Big Lies told by his aides: the claim that Saddam Hussein had played a role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
By suggesting that the invasion and occupation of Iraq should be seen as part of a legitimate and necessary response to September 11, as he clearly did on Tuesday, Bush made a deliberate break with reality - not so complete a break, perhaps, as that of Cheney and the wing-nut faction of the administration, but a break all the same.
The president's speech was written and delivered with the intent of deceiving the American people into believing things that were never true.
By suggesting that the invasion and occupation of Iraq should be seen as part of a legitimate and necessary response to September 11, as he clearly did on Tuesday, Bush made a deliberate break with reality - not so complete a break, perhaps, as that of Cheney and the wing-nut faction of the administration, but a break all the same.
The president's speech was written and delivered with the intent of deceiving the American people into believing things that were never true.
- from a Capital Times editorial.
***
No comments:
Post a Comment