Quote:
Quote by: RickSp  Virtually everyone from Fox to the Washington Post was parroting the same line. The New York Times was printing Judy Miller's prepackaged fantasies straight from the White House. The Bush administration claimed that Saddam was actively building nukes. That was scary. It was also turned out to be a lie. A lot of people were fooled. But the scam isn't working anymore. |
powell's presentation at the u.n. was one of the most convincing pieces of the lie for me.. i, like many, believed him to be a man of his word - and i knew that he was the only force within the administration to urge caution over the issue. powell pressured him to take the issue to the u.n., etc... so, when powell spoke, i believed, much more than when our semi-retarded president and his shady cold war buddies gave us their war mongering rhetoric.
i never supported his decision to rush into the war though. i wanted to see the inspection process continue because it was the best deterrant policy imaginable - at little cost in money and life. there was no way saddam could've wiped his nose in that situation without us knowing about it.
i feel like the country's mood is the same now as it was in the 2004 elections... the only difference was that bush was able to get the bigots all hot and bothered over low priority issues like gay marriage. and then all that swift boat nonsense.... in other words, people drew their partisan lines in the sand, so the poll numbers appeared to be more supportive of bush and his policies. in actuality, it was just a bunch of fools caught up in campaign rhetoric.
you look at all the new polls coming out after the foley scandal and none of them indicate a real advantage for democrats. all they do suggest is that people are uneasy about the state of the nation. (i don't think that's new, despite what older polls may suggest.)