The Move On Defense of George W. Bush | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden)
The most annoying comment (none / 0)
was left by a "JimR" in the Huffington Post comments section:

"Sorry, but Barry is spot on, and I think you misrepresent his argument. You fail to mention that Congress failed the country every bit as much as Bush did. And what exactly do you hope to charge Bush with?
Lying about WMDs in Iraq? Bill Clinton said they were there. The United Nations said they were there.

Starting an illegal war? It was authorized by Congress (don't try giving me that pathetic excuse that it wasn't a vote for war. It damn well was.). And as Barry points out, only 3 members bothered to read the NIE.

Illegal wiretapping? All part of the Patriot Act, approved by Congress.

Torture? The Bush Administration expertly steered this issue into a legal gray area, and Congress did nothing to stop it.

We all have fantasies of bringing the bad guys to justice. But seeking criminal charges at this time would tear this country apart at a time when we desperately need to come together.

The good news is, in the executive branch, the bad guys are gone. The bad news is, some of the bad guys who helped him are still there in Congress, on both sides of the aisle."

by Tom Hanc on 01/26/2009 03:13:20 PM EST

Give 'em all time, but give the instigators double (none / 0)

At least.

 Well, first off, the illegal wiretapping was still illegal until the FISA-update bill passed.  It passed, probably because Democratic leaders were implicated in the illegal wiretapping, because due to cretinism, cowardice, corruption, or complicity, they got sucked in to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld One Fear To Rule Them All plan.

But it wasn't the Reid/Pelosi plan, was it?  They were just convinced that Cheney and Rumsfeld, walking around the table with baseball bats while Bush snickered creepily, were going to make soup out of their brains if they didn't play along.  They were weak and despicable in that sense, sure.  Not Liberty's finest moment by any stretch.  Now that Obama's won, it's easy to say that they should have stood up to the B/C/R bullcrap, but the evil of the follower is of a lesser scale than the evil of the leader, and make no mistake, the Cheney/Rumsfeld axis, with Bush as feeble-brained frontman, was the driving force.  Pelosi and Reid?  5 to 10.  Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld?  20 to life, unless The Hague makes an exception to its policy of no longer hanging people.

 

by MixedContent on 01/27/2009 06:02:24 PM EST

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And what does that damn well make Bush? (none / 0)
On the one hand, many of us who thought the war was bloody nonsense from the get-go could see what this vote was going to lead to.  On the other, Bush *puh-romised* that he needed this vote so he could pressure Saddam Hussein to play nice *without* actually going to war, which he *puh-romised* he would do only as a last resort.  So as strongly as you say "it damn well was" a vote for war, that's how strongly you are saying that Bush was a lying sack of, uh, shaving cream.

by MixedContent on 01/27/2009 06:12:30 PM EST

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The Move On Defense of George W. Bush | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden)