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Tuesday, October 28, 2003
JUSTIFIABLE MASS HOMICIDE.
External link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23470-2003Oct27.html
You want to know what my biggest problem is with the Bush administration is? It's how no matter whatever the situation is, they'll twist it around so that it is some kind of "proof" that they are right. It's so transparently dishonest and self-serving that I feel very insulted each time that they think I'm going to fall for it.
For example, when George W. Bush took over the country, we had a budget surplus. So the Bush administration said that this surplus was proof that we needed to implement their tax plan, which would lower taxes on the wealthy. But when Bush talked down the economy and the surplus disappeared, the Bush administration said that this showed that we need to stimulate the economy-- by implementing their tax plan, which would lower taxes on the wealthy.
When Bush wanted to invade Iraq, he gave all his "proof" that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. But when UN inspectors failed to find any "smoking gun" evidence of such weapons, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer repeatedly said smugly that the problem with guns that are hidden is that you can't see the smoke, suggesting that the lack of evidence of WMD, was proof that the Iraqis were hiding them.
There are countless examples of this sort of doublespeak that makes listening to the Bush administration feel like talking to a wall. But the latest one takes the cake.
Today's Washington Post fronts an article entitled, "Bush Says Attacks Are Reflection of U.S. Gains."
Here's the heart of it: "'The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react,' Bush said as he sat in the Oval Office with L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq. He added: 'The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become, because they can't stand the thought of a free society.'"
This is the same Bush administration that assured us before the war that the Iraqi people would throw down their weapons and greet us with open arms. And now they expect you to buy this?
This hardly needs to be said, but I'm going to say it. In basically all wars, the other side fights back, and this is not an indication of the success of the attackers. Does the American Revolution vindicate the British? Does the Union victory in the Civil War vindicate the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter? According to Bush, an attack is not only justified when the other side welcomes you as a liberator, but also when they resist you. By this logic, all military attacks are always justified.
It's really quite Orwellian.
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