NYT on Bush's Fort Bragg Speech

Last night Dubya got up over at Fort Bragg and gave a speech. It was on the anniversary of the granting of sovereignty to Iraq. We're still there. We're setting up army bases. Our people are dying — 1700+. Iraqis are dying — 100,000+. He's still lying and humming and hawing.

The NY Times' Op Ed Page took the opportunity to call out the Prez on the crap he spewed last night.

We did not expect Mr. Bush would apologize for the misinformation that helped lead us into this war, or for the catastrophic mistakes his team made in running the military operation. But we had hoped he would resist the temptation to raise the bloody flag of 9/11 over and over again to justify a war in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks. We had hoped that he would seize the moment to tell the nation how he will define victory, and to give Americans a specific sense of how he intends to reach that goal - beyond repeating the same wishful scenario that he has been describing since the invasion

Sadly, Mr. Bush wasted his opportunity last night, giving a speech that only answered questions no one was asking. He told the nation, again and again, that a stable and democratic Iraq would be worth American sacrifices, while the nation was wondering whether American sacrifices could actually produce a stable and democratic Iraq.

Just as I thought, I didn't miss much and what I missed was a whole lot of 9/11-Iraq-Progress bullshit.

Comments

[XTINA!]

.....whaddya expect, eh? Someone should tell him, "I don't want to tell you 'I told you so' but.....I told you so."