from here:
Bush insisted he respects the rights of protesters to speak out, but he dismissed the largest antiwar demonstrations since the Vietnam era, with 6 million participants, as unrepresentative of world opinion.
“You know, size of protest, it’s like deciding, well, I’m going to decide policy based upon a focus group. The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security — in this case, the security of the people,” Bush said. “Evidently some . . . don’t view Saddam Hussein as a risk to peace. I respectfully disagree.”
“If everyone disagrees with me, then just maybe– maybe– maybe everyone’s wrong but me.” (paraphrasing from a Lois Bujold book)
Bush blathers about focus groups. ‘Cause we all know he never pays attention to the polls, right? Right?
Axis of twits by P.M. Carpenter: “Contrary to the president’s repeated claims that a blow against Saddam Hussein will be a blow against terrorism, the most recent Osama bin Laden audiotape confirms that a blow against Saddam will be a gift to al Qaeda, more valuable in propagandistic weight than U.S. airbases in Saudi Arabia.”
from here:
[The claim that we will liberate Iraq] is part of the convoluted stew of rationalizations that the Bush administration has cooked up to obscure what is nothing less than the abdication of the very principles of peace, justice and law upon which America was founded.
We’ve been told we’re going to war to eliminate weapons of mass destruction we haven’t located yet; to retaliate for links to al Qaeda that are historically tenuous; to eliminate a man for actions he might take some day; to liberate an oppressed people we didn’t care about before Sept. 11.
Which is it? It doesn’t matter to the Bush administration, as long as you accept any of the above.
[...] Haven’t we abandoned American ideals the moment we attempt to impose them by force?
from here: “Some of the more bilious right-wing pundits–and shamefully, the Washington Post editorial page editors–have taken to describing those who oppose the invasion as “siding with Saddam.” (As Joe Conason pointed out, they have, however, curiously excluded the Pope in their screeds.) But if such sleazy rhetoric is allowable, then maybe we should say that those like our President, who seem to have ignored Osama’s decrees, or like Powell, who are hawking a Saddam/Al Qaeda connection based on overblown evidence, are standing with Osama.”
$400 billion for duct tape? by Barry Crimmins:
And no matter what it tells you about respect for innocent lives in Iraq, the court-appointed Bush Administration’s announced plan to awe and shock Baghdad –by leveling it –reveals the real story. There is no such thing as precision carpet-bombing. And what is the intent of a terrorist if not to awe and shock? Did we not feel awe and shock on that horrible morning of September 11, 2001?
I hate to point this out but you know what is a very effective countermeasure to duct tape and plastic? Box cutters! Kind of brings us back to Square One, doesn’t it?
[...] I’m sure most of you in this large and enthusiastic crowd will be asked by self-appointed guardians of America, ’If you don’t love this country, why don’t you just get out of it?”
The answer is simple, “Because I don’t want to be victimized by its foreign policy!”
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