Is Bush as Bad as CBS

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09/26/2004

Is Bush as Bad as CBS?
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So, Kaitlyn, below is a comment left by a fellow in response to my CBS post.


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Ahhh… I’ll start by saying that it’s interesting to read things from a Republican perspective.

CBS was quick to report documents about Bush’s record during the Vietnam era, true. But what is more dangerous; reporting about what a commanding officer said about someone’s military record 30-years after the fact; or sending 100,000 troops to fight, and risk their lives, based on inaccurate intelligence information about weapons of mass destruction, and ties to Al Qaeda.

Doesn’t the commander-in-chief have even more responsibility than CBS in checking out all the facts?

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Posted by Scott Spahr to The Kaitlyn Mae Book at 9/24/2004 01:42:21 PM++++++++

And so Grandmother must answer. We’ll begin by pointing out that there is some strangely convoluted logic to the poster’s reasoning. IF we assume that President Bush sent our young people to fight in a war without checking out the facts, well this is way worse than CBS’ little indiscretion.

This is not to say that Grandmother agrees with the Poster’s assertion because surely, surely, surely, surely, Scott, you are not alleging that Bush sent the troops to Iraq without checking out the facts?

With all the power of the United States of America I suppose there’s plenty to be discovered and investigated about Iraq. One could even do a Google search though I’m betting Bush did way more. I would also point out that our lawfully elected representatives in the House and Senate also voted to send troops to Iraq.

Do you really believe Saddamn didn’t have weapons of mass destruction? When he’d already used them to slaughter over 100K of his own people, well I’d declare that evidence that he had them. Did we find STOCKPILES of these weapons? No.

What can I say, Scott. Bush didn’t have video or DVD’s of Saddamn’s weapons but he and the rest of the world believe he had them. Most still believe he had them, including Kaitlyn’s grandmother. Who knows, did he ship them to Syria? Sarin gas can be stored in a baby food jar. Try looking for a jar of baby food in a country the size of California.

Saddamn was a bad actor, Scott, the enormity of his badness is still not known. Our airplanes, flying over the north and south of Iraq to protect Saddamn’s people, were regularly fired at by Saddamn’s goons. Saddamn paid $25K to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, a fact he proudly announced before the cameras. This when his own country was starving and medically deprived due to sanctions, or so Saddamn alleged. Leading to the creation of the faud called “Oil for Food” from which Saddamn could siphon funds he could only dream about without sanctions.
Look, after 9-11 Bush had to look at the world as it existed. He named three countries in the axis of evil, which they are, Scott. Bad countries led by very bad and misguided people who have provided nothing but misery and pain to their citizens. Iraq, Iran, and Korea.

By process of elimination we get rid of Iraq. Saddamn was a dangerous man and had yanked the world around for over ten years. What with all of his palaces he certainly didn’t have the Iraqi populace first in his mind.

Saddamn’s gone. The acting prime minister of Iraq spoke before our congress last week. He came to thank us.

The folly of CBS and your allegation of a rogue president who would lead the soldiers into an unjust battle without investigation is not even close to being on the same scale.

Add to this, your fallacy in that Bush DID collect his facts, well we’re not even on the same playing field, Scott.