"Bush wanted war, & he got it. Many thousands have died as a result." DSM

[LynnTheDem]

Now, with George W. bush in charge, the nation is mired in yet another tragic period marked by incompetence, duplicity, bad faith and outright lies coming once again from the very top of the government. Just last month we had the disclosure of a previously secret British government memorandum that offered further confirmation that the American public and the world were spoon-fed bogus information by the Bush administration in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

President bush, as we know, wanted to remove Saddam Hussein through military action. With that in mind, the memo damningly explained, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

That's the kind of deceit that was in play as American men and women were suiting up and marching off to combat at the president's command. Mr. bush wanted war, and he got it. Many thousands have died as a result.

There you have it in a nutshell. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, drunk with power and insufficiently restrained, took the nation on hair-raising journeys that were as unnecessary as they were destructive. Now, in the first years of the 21st century, George W. bush is doing the same.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/opinion/02herbert.html?hp

[leftchick]

1. chimpy** the "disassembler"....

~snip~

At a press conference on Tuesday, President Bush, speaking about detainees who had complained of being abused, said they were "people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble - that means not tell the truth." Mr. Bush meant, of course, to say dissemble, which really means to deliberately mislead or conceal. Nevertheless, he knew what he was talking about. The president may have stumbled over the pronunciation, but he's proved time and again that he's a skillful practitioner of the art.

[Bellamia]

3. Dis AAS embler..........

I kinda like the implicit meaning of this word, you know, Bush, the horses ASS.

[gratuitous]

2. Once again, the op-ed pages have the news

While the news pages give us the weekly valentine to George W. Bush and what's on his iPod and Judith Miller's scared scrawlings.

Thanks a heap, New York Times. You know, if you guys had been in the journalism business just a couple of years ago, it's possible that some of this incompetence, duplicity, bad faith and outright lies might have been exposed in real time when it could have saved a life or two. Or ten thousand.

[jaxx]

5. There's no time like the present

to start reporting the news as it really is, not as dubya & co want it told. Keep that memo in the news, and keep asking for answers. Let dubya and McClellan keep falling all over themselves to ignore the fact the news is out, and that this adm is down the tubes.

[elehhhhna]

4. "I'm a war President!"