September 5, 2004
THE CASE AGAINST SADDAM WAS SADDAM:
Amnesia in the Garden (MAUREEN DOWD, 9/05/04, NY Times)
The Manichaean Candidate's convention was a brazen bizarro masterpiece. The case to sack John Kerry featured the same shady tactics used to build the case to whack Saddam - cherry-picked facts, selective claims and warped contexts.W. took a page from Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Total Recall," a futuristic movie about inserting fully formed memories into the minds of unsuspecting victims.
The president and vice president ignored all the expert evidence now compiled indicating no link between 9/11 and Saddam, and no Saddam threat to U.S. security. After talking about "the fanatics who killed some 3,000 of our fellow Americans," Dick Cheney boasted: "In Iraq, we dealt with a gathering threat, and removed the regime of Saddam Hussein."
Once more?:
The progress we and our friends and allies seek in the broader Middle East will not come easily or all at once.Posted by Orrin Judd at September 5, 2004 2:50 PMYet Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of liberty to transform lives and nations. That power brought settlers on perilous journeys, inspired colonies to rebellion, ended the sin of slavery, and set our nation against the tyrannies of the 20th century.
We were honored to aid the rise of democracy in Germany and Japan, Nicaragua and Central Europe and the Baltics, and that noble story goes on.
I believe that America is called to lead the cause of freedom in a new century. I believe that millions in the Middle East plead in silence for their liberty. I believe that given the chance, they will embrace the most honorable form of government ever devised by man.
I believe all these things because freedom is not America's gift to the world; it is the almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.
This moment in the life of our country will be remembered. Generations will know if we kept our faith and kept our word. Generations will know if we seized this moment and used it to build a future of safety and peace. The freedom of many and the future security of our nation now depend on us.
And tonight, my fellow Americans, I ask you to stand with me.
Save your breath, O.J. Those in Maureen-world are like the dog in that classic 'Far Side' whenever Bush speaks.
"Blah blah blah PROGRESS blah blah WILL NOT COME blah blah AMERICANS blah blah INSPIRED blah blah TYRANNIES blah blah FREEDOM IS NOT blah blah GOD (!!!!!!!)'s GIFT blah blah I ASK YOU TO STAND WITH...... HALIBURTONHALIBURTONHALIBURTONHALIBURTONHALIBURTONHALIBURTON."
See?? Bush lies!
(sigh)
Posted by: Andrew X at September 5, 2004 5:01 PM> W. took a page from Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Total Recall," a futuristic movie about inserting fully formed memories into the minds of unsuspecting victims.
Unsuspecting victims?! They were paying customers.
Posted by: Guy T. at September 6, 2004 1:58 PM