Palin Demands Honesty on Iraq from Obama, Not Bush, While Playing the Iraq = 9/11 Terra Card

[Amerigo Vespucci]

September 01, 2010 08:00 AM
Palin Demands Honesty on Iraq from Obama, Not Bush
By Jon Perr

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/palin-demands-honesty-on-iraq--from-obama-not-bush

In her predictable Facebook pre-buttal to the President's primetime speech on Iraq Tuesday, Sarah Palin demanded that Barack Obama "admit you were wrong about the surge." But in insisting that "the more honest you are about the past, the more likely it is you will gain the support of the American people," Palin exempted President Bush - and herself - from the lies that were used to sell and perpetuate the war in Iraq. After all, the Bush administration and its Republican amen corner (including her running mate) didn't merely tell the American people about the "smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud," being "greeted as liberators" or an insurgency in its "last throes" (just to recall a few). Bush's defenders, including Sarah Palin herself, continue to peddle the zombie myth of Republican politics, the bogus 9/11 - Iraq connection that will never die.

In her response to a speech on health care by President Obama last September, Palin joined the long list of conservatives before her who sought to polish the Iraq turd by seamlessly connecting it to the September 11 attacks. That night, President Obama noted the inescapable truth that the $900 billion, projected 10-year cost of health care reform would be less than revenue lost to the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy or the expenditures on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For that simple math exercise, the Quittah from Wasilla blasted the President, suggesting he betrayed both those killed on September 11 and those who sacrificed for our country since:

"Finally, President Obama delivered an offhand applause line tonight about the cost of the War on Terror. As we approach the anniversary of the September 11th attacks and honor those who died that day and those who have died since in the War on Terror, in order to secure our freedoms, we need to remember their sacrifices and not demonize them as having had too high a price tag."

Barack Obama, of course, did no such thing. But for her part, Sarah Palin helped perpetuate the Republican lie that won't die: the invasion of Iraq, part of her "War on Terror," was a necessary response to the September 11 horror, the war on Saddam part of the "price tag" to be paid to "secure our freedoms" from the Al Qaeda killers who struck 9 years ago.

Which puts Sarah Palin in the large group of Bush administration officials including Dick Cheney, Ari Fleischer, Condoleezza Rice and President Bush himself who continue to peddle the long-debunked 9/11 - Saddam link this year.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Dear Sarah Palin:

With all due respect my dear, I could give a damn what you think. Go away you little small person/pest.

With Warmest Regards,

President Barack H. Obama

P.S. It's France! Not FRANCISTAN you idiot!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Sarah Palin NEVER fails to disappoint

Who couldn't have seen another horrifyingly ignorant and ridiculous attack on President Obama coming from her over this issue (among others)? This is further evidence that you just can't fix stupid. :eyes: :banghead:
What really worries me is not so much her idiotic pronouncements but rather that there are way too many people whom believe and support her and her ideological dysfunctional family of Fox News TV and other associated hate radio personalities.
:scared:

[chelsea0011]

3. As far as I can see, this was Obama's greatest achievement so far.

He said prior to the election he would end this war and he did. And as to Palin? When Iraq falls into full civil war (and I hope I am wrong), then he can request that Palin apologize to the thousands of families who buried sons, daughters, fathers, and mothers.

[Bitwit1234]

4. While on the subject of Palin's

has anybody taken a good look at Bristol. Boy she sure is creepy looking. There AIN'T MUCH they can do to glam her up for that show.