Does Bush "take responsibility" for 100,000 dead in Iraq --based on LIES ?

[cthrumatrix]

Taking Full Responsibility
President Bush should be commended for finally accepting “full responsibility” for his blunders in managing the Katrina recovery effort. While he’s in the mood to begin taking responsibility, we’ve offered 10 other issues for which he should also be held accountable:

- The launching of a war of choice against a country that had no WMD

- The approval of interrogation practices that led to torture at Abu Ghraib

- The failure to disclose the true cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill

- The tripling of global terrorist attacks

- The 6 million more uninsured Americans over the past four years

- The $1.40 increase in the price of gas per gallon over the past four years

- The 7 percent decrease in real value of minimum wage over the past four years

- The 11 percent increase in poverty over the past four years

- The four straight years in which median household incomes have not increased

- The all-time high trade deficit, nearing $700 billion

Feel free to add to the list.

http://www.thinkprogress.org


Feel free MEDIA to do your damn jobs !

[joanne]

1. Kicked and recommended

[mindwalker_i]

2. "Full responsibility"

What exactly does he mean by taking responsibility? Does it mean he takes responsibility for the 100s or 1000s dead? Does he take responsibility for destroying FEMA's ability to do its job by placing good ol' buddies in charge?

Acknowledging that it could have been better by "taking responsibility" is one small step. Does this mean that Bush will make a real effort to get at the real reasons Katrina was such a major screwup? Does it translate into some form of action, like putting really competent people in charge without regard to their loyalty? Does it mean that when the next thing hits, stuff won't suck as bad?

F*** no!

It means one thing only. Bush will say, "Hey I accepted responsibility, so quit hammering me on it. Time to move on." And since any acknowledgment of his actions being less than perfect is so unprecedented that it'll go a lot farther than it should.

-mwalker