Richard Cohen writes in Tuesday’s Washington Post.
“Gore would not have taken the United States to war in Iraq. He would have finished the job in Afghanistan — it was al-Qaeda and its Taliban enablers who were responsible for the attacks on us on Sept. 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein, no matter how vile he might have been. Gore would not have dealt with the Iranians and the North Koreans in such a juvenile fashion — axis of evil, after all — and all over the world, wherever you and I went, we would not detect such anger toward America.”
Cohen fails to mention in his laudatory piece on Gore that it was Cohen himself who back in the 2000 campaign falsely caricatured Gore as an “exaggerator.” It’s thanks to Cohen and others like him that the US is in the mess it’s in today. But Cohen will never admit that, unlike cartoonist, Tom Toles, who nails it pretty much on the head above.
Categories: Gore · journalistic integrity · smear
In a stunning display of perhaps accidental truth-telling, US Senator John McCain admitted that the US has “wasted” the lives of US troops in Iraq.
Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be,” McCain said Wednesday on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman.” “We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.”
Earlier, presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, apologized for making a similar statement about the wasting of US lives in Iraq.
Categories: McCain · troops
Next time some nitwit rightwinger brags that terror attacks are down thanks to Bush, remind them of this piece in The Indpendent.
“An authoritative US study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide. The research is said to be the first to attempt to measure the “Iraq effect” on global terrorism. It found that the number killed in jihadist attacks around the world has risen dramatically since the Iraq war began in March 2003. The study compared the period between 11 September 2001 and the invasion of Iraq with the period since the invasion. The count – excluding the Arab-Israel conflict – shows the number of deaths due to terrorism rose from 729 to 5,420. As well as strikes in Europe, attacks have also increased in Chechnya and Kashmir since the invasion. The research was carried out by the Centre on Law and Security at the NYU Foundation for Mother Jones magazine.”
Innocent people are paying the ultimate price for Bush’s foolishness.
Categories: terror is worse
Richard Cohen writes in Tuesday’s Washington Post.
“Gore would not have taken the United States to war in Iraq. He would have finished the job in Afghanistan — it was al-Qaeda and its Taliban enablers who were responsible for the attacks on us on Sept. 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein, no matter how vile he might have been. Gore would not have dealt with the Iranians and the North Koreans in such a juvenile fashion — axis of evil, after all — and all over the world, wherever you and I went, we would not detect such anger toward America.”
Cohen fails to mention in his laudatory piece on Gore that it was Cohen himself who back in the 2000 campaign falsely caricatured Gore as an “exaggerator.” It’s thanks to Cohen and others like him that the US is in the mess it’s in today. But Cohen will never admit that, unlike cartoonist, Tom Toles, who nails it pretty much on the head above.
Categories: Gore · journalistic integrity · smear
In a stunning display of perhaps accidental truth-telling, US Senator John McCain admitted that the US has “wasted” the lives of US troops in Iraq.
Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be,” McCain said Wednesday on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman.” “We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.”
Earlier, presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, apologized for making a similar statement about the wasting of US lives in Iraq.
Categories: McCain · troops
Next time some nitwit rightwinger brags that terror attacks are down thanks to Bush, remind them of this piece in The Indpendent.
“An authoritative US study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide. The research is said to be the first to attempt to measure the “Iraq effect” on global terrorism. It found that the number killed in jihadist attacks around the world has risen dramatically since the Iraq war began in March 2003. The study compared the period between 11 September 2001 and the invasion of Iraq with the period since the invasion. The count – excluding the Arab-Israel conflict – shows the number of deaths due to terrorism rose from 729 to 5,420. As well as strikes in Europe, attacks have also increased in Chechnya and Kashmir since the invasion. The research was carried out by the Centre on Law and Security at the NYU Foundation for Mother Jones magazine.”
Innocent people are paying the ultimate price for Bush’s foolishness.
Categories: terror is worse
Bush and the GOP know that the Democrat who comes to office in 2009 will have to implement some very painful measures to begin making up for the Bush train wreck.
So, their thinking probably is, “Hey, let’s f*ck things up even MORE while we have the chance! The worse we make things, the more unpopular the next president will be. And since that’s going to be a Demcocrat, then, all bets are off. Let’s PARTY!!!!!!!”
Categories: Bush sabotages progress
You’d have to see it to believe it, folks. There is no cheap, dishonest trick, these media types won’t use to try to smear Gore. Here,
Greg Sargent shows just how sleazy Maureen Dowd can be. Makes one wonder if she quoted Geffen correctly, eh?
Speaking of Dowd’s trickery, Sargent writes, “But wait — watch those hands…they move awful quick. Let’s go back and take a look at the full and original New York magazine passage Dowd quoted from. . . “
Categories: Dowd · Gore · journalistic integrity · smear
Bush and the GOP know that the Democrat who comes to office in 2009 will have to implement some very painful measures to begin making up for the Bush train wreck.
So, their thinking probably is, “Hey, let’s f*ck things up even MORE while we have the chance! The worse we make things, the more unpopular the next president will be. And since that’s going to be a Demcocrat, then, all bets are off. Let’s PARTY!!!!!!!”
Categories: Bush sabotages progress
From Election Central at the TMP Cafe we get this interesting report.
Some new poll numbers suggest that the conventional wisdom — which holds that Hillary Clinton will suffer badly in the primary from her war vote and unwillingness to call it a mistake — may be questionable or even wrong.
The new numbers are buried in the big survey released this week by the Washington Post. Democrats were asked whether given “what was known at the time,” it was the right thing for Hillary to vote for war authorization, or whether it was a mistake. A surprising 52% said her vote was the right thing to do at the time, versus only 47% who said it was a mistake.
What’s more, when even those who said it was a mistake were then asked if Hillary should apologize, a mere 31% said yes. And guess how many said an apology wasn’t necessary? Sixty-eight percent. And remember, these are potential Democratic primary voters.
Stick to your guns, Girl!
Categories: Hillary · campaign · polls
