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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 08:25 AM
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"...Crawford George has morphed into Baghdad Bob."
A useful bit of info from Maureen...


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/opinion/30DOWD.html

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The war began with Bush illogic: false intelligence (from Niger to nuclear) used to bolster a false casus belli (imminent threat to our security) based on a quartet of false premises (that we could easily finish off Saddam and the Baathists, scare the terrorists and democratize Iraq without leeching our economy).

Now Bush illogic continues: The more Americans, Iraqis and aid workers who get killed and wounded, the more it is a sign of American progress. The more dangerous Iraq is, the safer the world is. The more troops we seem to need in Iraq, the less we need to send more troops.

The harder it is to find Saddam, Osama and W.M.D., the less they mattered anyhow. The more coordinated, intense and sophisticated the attacks on our soldiers grow, the more "desperate" the enemy is.

In a briefing piped into the Pentagon on Monday from Tikrit, Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno called the insurgents "desperate" eight times. But it is Bush officials who seem desperate when they curtain off reality. They don't even understand the political utility of truth.

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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 08:42 AM
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1. my favorite projection quote
Was when Wolfowitz said the Baghdad bombing at his hotel was a sign of a dying criminal regime. Now if that doesn't describe bushco, I don't know what does!


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