Friday, September 10, 2004
Kerry Says Bush Assault Weapons Stance Aids Terrorists (NY times)
President Bush campaigned today in sections of Appalachia, where he said that his economic and tax policies were turning things around. In St. Louis, Senator John Kerry said the president was helping terrorists by letting a ban on assault weapons expire next week.
Mr. Bush spoke at a rally in Huntington, W.Va., where he promised the crowd that if the American people returned him to office, he would keep the country safe from dangers from abroad and protect the people at home through prudent taxes, better schools and a health-care plan that is responsive to senior citizens.
"Many people change jobs and careers several times over the course of a lifetime," Mr. Bush said, "yet many of the fundamental systems the tax code, health coverage, pension plans, worker training were created for the world of yesterday, not tomorrow. So for the next four years we'll transform these systems to help our citizens."
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How Many Deaths Will It Take? (NY times)
It was Vietnam all over again - the heartbreaking head shots captioned with good old American names:
Jose Casanova, Donald J. Cline Jr., Sheldon R. Hawk Eagle, Alyssa R. Peterson.
Eventually there'll be a fine memorial to honor the young Americans whose lives were sacrificed for no good reason in Iraq. Yesterday, under the headline "The Roster of the Dead," The New York Times ran photos of the first thousand or so who were killed.
They were sent off by a president who ran and hid when he was a young man and his country was at war. They fought bravely and died honorably. But as in Vietnam, no amount of valor or heroism can conceal the fact that they were sent off under false pretenses to fight a war that is unwinnable.
How many thousands more will have to die before we acknowledge that President Bush's obsession with Iraq and Saddam Hussein has been a catastrophe for the United States?
Joshua T. Byers, Matthew G. Milczark, Harvey E. Parkerson 3rd, Ivory L. Phipps.
Fewer and fewer Americans believe the war in Iraq is worth the human treasure we are losing and the staggering amounts of money it is costing. But no one can find a way out of this tragic mess, which is why that dreaded word from the Vietnam era - quagmire - has been resurrected. Most Washington insiders agree with Senator John McCain, who said he believes the U.S. will be involved militarily in Iraq for 10 or 20 more years.
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The Dishonesty Thing (NY times)
It's the dishonesty, stupid. The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't.
It's the same pattern of dishonesty, this time involving personal matters that the public can easily understand, that some of us have long seen on policy issues, from global warming to the war in Iraq. On budget matters, which is where I came in, serious analysts now take administration dishonesty for granted.
It wasn't always that way. Three years ago, those of us who accused the administration of cooking the budget books were ourselves accused, by moderates as well as by Bush loyalists, of being "shrill." These days the coalition of the shrill has widened to include almost every independent budget expert.
more
President Bush campaigned today in sections of Appalachia, where he said that his economic and tax policies were turning things around. In St. Louis, Senator John Kerry said the president was helping terrorists by letting a ban on assault weapons expire next week.
Mr. Bush spoke at a rally in Huntington, W.Va., where he promised the crowd that if the American people returned him to office, he would keep the country safe from dangers from abroad and protect the people at home through prudent taxes, better schools and a health-care plan that is responsive to senior citizens.
"Many people change jobs and careers several times over the course of a lifetime," Mr. Bush said, "yet many of the fundamental systems the tax code, health coverage, pension plans, worker training were created for the world of yesterday, not tomorrow. So for the next four years we'll transform these systems to help our citizens."
more
How Many Deaths Will It Take? (NY times)
It was Vietnam all over again - the heartbreaking head shots captioned with good old American names:
Jose Casanova, Donald J. Cline Jr., Sheldon R. Hawk Eagle, Alyssa R. Peterson.
Eventually there'll be a fine memorial to honor the young Americans whose lives were sacrificed for no good reason in Iraq. Yesterday, under the headline "The Roster of the Dead," The New York Times ran photos of the first thousand or so who were killed.
They were sent off by a president who ran and hid when he was a young man and his country was at war. They fought bravely and died honorably. But as in Vietnam, no amount of valor or heroism can conceal the fact that they were sent off under false pretenses to fight a war that is unwinnable.
How many thousands more will have to die before we acknowledge that President Bush's obsession with Iraq and Saddam Hussein has been a catastrophe for the United States?
Joshua T. Byers, Matthew G. Milczark, Harvey E. Parkerson 3rd, Ivory L. Phipps.
Fewer and fewer Americans believe the war in Iraq is worth the human treasure we are losing and the staggering amounts of money it is costing. But no one can find a way out of this tragic mess, which is why that dreaded word from the Vietnam era - quagmire - has been resurrected. Most Washington insiders agree with Senator John McCain, who said he believes the U.S. will be involved militarily in Iraq for 10 or 20 more years.
more
The Dishonesty Thing (NY times)
It's the dishonesty, stupid. The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't.
It's the same pattern of dishonesty, this time involving personal matters that the public can easily understand, that some of us have long seen on policy issues, from global warming to the war in Iraq. On budget matters, which is where I came in, serious analysts now take administration dishonesty for granted.
It wasn't always that way. Three years ago, those of us who accused the administration of cooking the budget books were ourselves accused, by moderates as well as by Bush loyalists, of being "shrill." These days the coalition of the shrill has widened to include almost every independent budget expert.
more
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