Americans Inching Closer to a Reckoning (Miami Herald)

[katty]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9232.htm

Americans inching closer to a reckoning

Do you want to know?

By Robert Steinback

06/22/05 "Miami Herald" - - Do you want to know? That's the only popular division that matters in the United States today: Those who want to determine once and for all if President Bush knowingly 'fixed the facts' regarding Iraq, thereby misleading Congress and the American people into supporting an unnecessary war, and those who will cover their ears and hum loudly in order to maintain their belief that Bush and his advisors remain above reproach.

You're in one camp or the other. Either you want to know if you've been lied to, or you don't.

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[aquart]

1. Third Camp: Already know I've been lied to.

[AuntiBush]

4. And the Camp is Becoming "Over Crowded!" In there w/ya!

[katty]

5. Me too, Many do and many heads still in sand

[malaise]

2. hahahahahahahhahahha

The oh-so-clever Bush administration strategists and their quasi-media acolytes, who have kept the reckoning at bay with a deft combination of we're-at-war patriotic fervor and fear-the-evil-liberals rhetoric, are running out of parlor tricks.
Beautifully stated.

[hvn_nbr_2]

3. Do you want to know?

That may be a slogan to join "What are they hiding?"

[Pirate Smile]

7. I like the "Do you want to know?" because how can you say NO,

whichever side you are on. Don't you want to find out the truth can be argued easily with the other side.

Simplistic arguments sell. Complicated ones usually don't.

Do you want to know or not? If BushCo did nothing wrong and you are a supporter, don't you want them to be vindicated? What are you afraid of?

I like it.

[Pirate Smile]

6. Here is more:

"Did you catch the irony? Conyers has no credibility to challenge the president's actions toward Iraq, the White House argues, because Conyers has opposed the war from the beginning. Yet just a few months ago, the Bush people ridiculed Sen. John Kerry because Kerry allegedly supported the war before being against it -- remember all the giddy supporters chanting ``Flip-flop! Flip-flop!'

Clearly, whether you've always opposed Iraq or recently reached that conclusion, Team Bush thinks you're irrelevant.

That's not leadership; that's obstinacy. McClellan's comment helps to bring into focus why, for example, no one at the White House listened to then-National Security Council advisor Richard Clarke's warnings about al Qaeda before 9/11, nor his arguments afterward that Iraq had nothing to do it. We can see now why then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, who warned about getting mired in Iraq, had to go. It becomes more clear why no White House insider has been disciplined for leaking CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the press, after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, revealed that Bush used an already-discredited whopper about Iraq's efforts to buy uranium ore in his 2003 State of the Union speech. It explains why Bush is standing by his nomination of John Bolton to the U.N. despite Bolton's alleged attempts to pressure intelligence agents into supporting White House policies. "

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Yup--here's the camp for those of you who think you've been lied to.

See the pretty barbed wire? In you go, now.

[deacon2]

9. Such a good question

I'm thinking this question should replace "Hi, how are you?" for a while... Ask everyone you meet, "Do you want to know?" In fact, run to your windows right now and throw them open. I'll be waiting here while you do it. Stick your head out and scream, "Do you want to know?!"

{...}

Sorry. I thought I was in the movie NETWORK there for a minute. I was thinking I still lived in the United States of America, too.

[I Have A Dream]

10. Great article - kicked & recommended. n/t

[Scout1071]

11. Excellent article. Just emailed to a few friends.

[DemReadingDU]

12. Good reading, thanks for posting, n/t

[Puzzler]

13. Agreed... great, well-reasoned article.

-P