Bush vs. Bush
"I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence, and the speeches I have given were backed by good intelligence." -- July 15, 2003
"The CIA laid out several scenarios. It said that life could be lousy, life could be okay, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like." -- September 21, 2004
"Listen, people join terrorist organizations because there's no hope and there's no chance to raise their families in a peaceful world where there is not freedom. And so the idea is to promote freedom..." -- June 24, 2004
Bush sketched a stark, almost apocalyptical view of the world, a battle between good and evil that will end only in the destruction of terrorists. He suggested terrorist attacks are not rooted in any cause or grievance... -- September 22, 2004
Fun With Language
...dignity is dishonored by oppression, corruption, tyranny, bigotry, terrorism, and all violence against the innocent. ... We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. ... In this young century, our world needs a new definition of "security". Our security is not merely found in spheres of influence, or some balance of power. The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.
While we're at it, how about a new definition of "oppression, corruption, tyranny, bigotry, terrorism, and all violence against the innocent" which precludes us and our self-defined friends from committing such acts?
How about a new definition of "strive to resolve differences in peace" which includes spending more money on the military that the rest of the world combined, bombing a new Third World country to shreds every couple of years, arming and supporting military dictators, thumbing one's nose at multilateral institutions and abandoning treaty obligations, fantasising mortal threats out of mid-air, fabricating evidence and forging documents, dismissing overwhelming popular opinion as the natterings of an uninformed "focus group", etc.?
How about a new definition of "advancing rights of mankind" to include invading and occupying other countries, imprisoning and torturing their citizens, shutting down their media outlets, re-writing their economic laws, hand-picking their governments, blowing up homes, poisoning their environments with radioactive munitions, etc.?
The dictator agreed in 1991, as a condition of a cease-fire, to fully comply with all Security Council resolutions -- then ignored more than a decade of those resolutions. Finally, the Security Council promised serious consequences for his defiance. And the commitments we make must have meaning. When we say "serious consequences", for the sake of peace, there must be serious consequences.
And when we say "ignored", we mean "complied with". And when we say "defiance", we mean "cooperation". And when we say "commitments", we mean, "It doesn't matter how many hoops you jump through, we're taking your fucking oil, bitch."
"I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence, and the speeches I have given were backed by good intelligence." -- July 15, 2003
"The CIA laid out several scenarios. It said that life could be lousy, life could be okay, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like." -- September 21, 2004
Add it to the big long list of flip flops.
Posted by: dack on September 23, 2004 08:50 AM