Saturday, May 22, 2004
Let's Compare
A reader alerted us to this item in the Washington Post
201k cannot remember a time when America has been so despised, so needlessly, throughout the world. George Bush's reliance on the ignoble liars surrounding him has created an international disaster for our country, the burden for which will be borne by all its citizens--not to mention its foreign service--years after W and his Straussian cabal have retired in comfort.
Marc Sandalow writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: "House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco rejected Republican demands Thursday that she apologize for her strong condemnation of President Bush, as raw nerves over Iraq collided with raw politics on Capitol Hill.The usual G.O.P. bullying tactic, to which we can only say: Pelosi would have to go a long way to inspire America's enemies more than the incompetent George W. Bush has.
"Republican leaders accused Pelosi of taunting the troops, inspiring the enemy and putting American lives at risk by telling The Chronicle on Wednesday that Bush is an 'incompetent leader' who lacks the judgment, experience or knowledge to make good decisions."
In fact, Pelosi elaborated on her comments yesterday.
"The emperor has no clothes," she said. "I believe that the president's leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience, in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers."
In their Post story, Milbank and Babington write that "Republicans responded to Pelosi's unusually strong language by suggesting she was aiding the enemy in Iraq. 'We are in the middle of a war and in the middle of a political campaign,' said House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (Ill.). 'Mrs. Pelosi's comments were meant to inspire her political base, but who else do they inspire?' "
201k cannot remember a time when America has been so despised, so needlessly, throughout the world. George Bush's reliance on the ignoble liars surrounding him has created an international disaster for our country, the burden for which will be borne by all its citizens--not to mention its foreign service--years after W and his Straussian cabal have retired in comfort.
