Scathing Editorial against Bush in Tuscaloosa, Al newspaper

So President Bush finally got around to telling the American people that his war on Iraq wasn’t going quite as planned.

And he finally got around to asking the United Nations for help carrying on the war he claimed to be able to fight without anyone else’s help.

If I were President Bush, I would expect to eat a little crow right about now, and down it without complaint.

A little humility wouldn’t come amiss from a president who has managed to manipulate the press and the American people with his brand of macho play-acting and is now, perhaps, finally having to own up to a few miscalculations.

After lunging ahead to war without the support of much of his electorate — or the rest of the world, for that matter — Bush is now admitting begrudgingly that war games aren’t always a good predictor of actual outcomes, especially if you cast yourself as the conquering hero and forget that the conquered might have something to say about it.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030919/NEWS/30919009/1073/entertainment4

See, even in Alabama we get it.

Any state any hate for Bush is great!

liberal people I've know were from Mississippi. Sometimes when some of us talk about "winning the Southern vote" a condescension slips in. My Southern bias was shattered when I was younger and a University of PA, tenured professor of Medieval Monasticism befriended me. Though some of the best American writers have been from the South--I had allowed a bigotry into my perception of Southern people's intelligence.

When I visited the South the people whose homes I stayed in, in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana where more hospitable then the people back home whom I had been Friends with for years.

I was so ignorant that I was shocked to find a Southerner with an a Classical Avant-Garde record collection. I thought he would hit me--but instead he laughed good-naturedly at my idiocy. Then he said: You must have been raised in some trailer-park to know that." (He knew I had come from poverty and a trailer park).

Anyway, I don't know if you're Southern but thanks for bringing back some fond memories.

There are lot's of liberal folk in Alabama. I wouldn't have friends if there weren't.

I live in Huntsville Alabma and work at an Army Hospital. The Military are none to happy with the Commander in Empty Flight Suit.

Could have been written by a DUer! Nice to see that even in conservative states at least some people get it - and can get published.

College town but a lot of conservative folks around also.

Saturday afternoon!!! I didn't realize it was so pretty.

Missed field goal.

One year during the Alabama/Auburn game at Legion Field in Tuscaloosa there was a tornado warning. No one budged.

Tennessee, last year. The people at Alabama are very nice to visitors. I'm very impressed.

is owned by the same company as the New York Times, and has a similar editorial policy

I especially like the part about "duty" and "sacrifice".

I've got a real quick answer to those who want me to excercise my duty to the country by sacrificing for the ultimate goal: NO!
The Professor