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Here’s what the president said Monday night:
“The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad”
Here’s an exerpt from a well-written post by Robert J. Elisberg:
Actually, no, it doesn’t. Anyone who thinks our safety “depends” on street fighting in Baghdad has a piss-poor, pathetic view of America and should be so ashamed that they stay in their room in disgrace. Of course, if they think that little of America, they probably are already hiding in their rooms.
Elisberg continues:
We’ve reached the point where the White House has become a scene out of the “Wizard of Oz.” A disembodied head blowing smoke and making ominous pronouncements, while begging us not to look at the little man behind the curtain.
The words are fantasy, the reality befuddled.
Here’s some more examples from Bush’s 9/11/06 speech, all of them equally pathetic:
We’re adapting to stay ahead of the enemy, and we are carrying out a clear plan to ensure that a democratic Iraq succeeds. [Clear plan? Could you please remind us of the terms of this “clear plan”]
We’re helping Iraq’s unity government grow in strength and serve its people. [It’s getting so good, that our military personnel are bringing their spouses and children over there to vacation while the soldiers are off-duty. Oh, wait. No, I was thinking about Hawaii.]
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