Bush and McClellan say war critics are irresponsible for telling the truth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060110/pl_nm/bush_iraq_dc

Bush, who has faced a barrage of criticism over his handling of Iraq, said Americans know the difference between honest critics who question the way the war is being handled "and partisan critics who claim that we acted in Iraq because of oil, or because of Israel, or because we misled the American people."

He added, "So I ask all Americans to hold their elected leaders to account and demand a debate that brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries."

Bush did not mention names, but aides said he was referring to Democratic Party chief
Howard Dean, along with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said it was irresponsible for Democrats to claim, as Dean, Reid and others have done, that Bush has no strategy for Iraq....

wow, Bush and I finally agree on something!!!

Lookout, Georgie, for accounting cometh!!

"So I ask all Americans to hold their elected leaders to account and demand a debate that brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries."

Should read:

"So I ask all Americans to hold their un-elected leader to account for the conduct of this war, and demand an impeachment to being credit back to our democracy, and comfort to our citizens."

"Truth is the first casualty of war".

Never were truer words spoken.

They just put out a new one. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060110/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

"In a free society, there's only one check on political speech and that's the judgment of the American people," President Bush. I'm sure every other free society will be reassured that the American people have got there back when it comes to their own politians' lies.

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
Teddy Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star
May 7, 1918

He is screwed and he knows it. He survives by blaming someone else - but there is no one else now.

I am sure, ideological conservatives and liberals agree on central issues and know they were had. And they are pissed. He is in a box and no way out.

Joe

one party state and no freedom of speech.

It's endless...