SCHEER: Electorate Is Wising Up to the Iraq Blunder

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Tue Jun-01-04 05:16 PM
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SCHEER: Electorate Is Wising Up to the Iraq Blunder

June 1, 2004 – So, you really can't fool all the people all the time. George W. came close, getting high marks for his "war against terrorism" and for being a "war president," even though in Iraq he ended up fighting the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Yet despite Bush's claim again last week that occupied Iraq is "the central front in the war on terror," the grim consequences of this colonial-style adventure have finally gotten through to an electorate that understandably invested a huge amount of trust in him after 9/11.

http://www.robertscheer.com

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Tue Jun-01-04 05:39 PM
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1. i love this quote from the article.........

"Even the once-cocky neoconservative intellectuals who pushed so hard for this war for a decade -- and who are now enraged that their darling Ahmad Chalabi is being called to account -- are suddenly abandoning ship like rats, claiming the Bush administration ruined their beautiful vision with its incompetence. "I would be the first to acknowledge we allowed the liberation to subside into an occupation," longtime invasion booster Richard Perle said last week."

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struggle4progress

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Wed Jun-02-04 12:26 AM
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3. Are they just "like rats"? I thought they were actually rats.

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Tue Jun-01-04 06:13 PM
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2. Oops! Too bad, we rolled craps and now...

more than 800 young Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis are dead. We tortured detainees, lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and gave Western democracy a huge black eye by showing how easy it was for a self-aggrandizing "war president" to hoodwink Congress and the people. One of those who was fooled was Sen. John Kerry. It is high time he showed some real, from-the-gut, anger over a president who so shamelessly led him and the nation astray. The public is onto Bush, but Kerry has to provide it an alternative by exposing the lies and deceptions that have weakened our country.

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Wed Jun-02-04 12:41 AM
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4. Truth vs lies ...

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