Well said Tim.
I was going to weigh in on that question too. However, after seeing the responses you, Tenchusatsu & less have received on the subject, I see it would be pointless. The opposing POV's are firmly entrenched.
I'm fairly sure that koan & those who think like him would look at the list below & think that most, if not all of the issues they comprise are true. Since my POV is close to the precise opposite [based on overwhelming evidence], all it will lead to is folks shouting past each other. So, why bother?
* stolen election
* selected President
* tax cuts for the rich
* Bush knew in advance about 9/11 & did nothing
* Saddam was contained - sanctions were working
* rush to war
* unilateral - go it alone canards
* "global warming" will continue unabated into the future unless we dramatically reduce greenhouse gases now
* Bush skeptical of "global warming" & won't sign on to Koyoto accords
* tax cuts will reduce revenues & increase the deficit
* Iraq war planned by Bush Admin before 9/11
* Bush masterminded 9/11 conspiracy
* Iraq = war for Oil
* Bush is an idiot [see previous 5 items]
* Patriot Act memes
* losing our freedoms
* speech being stifled
* an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban & defeat Al-Qaida will fail
* illegal war
* Bush lied us into war
* the imminent threat canard
* civilians intentionally targeted/massive civilian casualties canards
* if we go to War in Iraq, there will be a dramatic increase in terrorist attacks globally
* the Wilson/Plame/yellowcake canards
* quagmire
* bogged down
* Bush's justification for war was ALL about "stockpiles" of WMD's & nothing else
* Saddam had no ties/connections to Al Qaeda
* there were no terrorists in Iraq prior to Saddam's removal
* the Bush Admin falsely linked Saddam to 9/11 as part of the justification to go to war
* Bush was AWOL
* Bush received "special" treatment based upon
Dan Rather's forged documents
* Bush's crushing of dissent & freedoms
* exit strategy memes
* Mission Accomplished canard
* journalists intentionally targeted by our troops
* Bush & Co pressured the intelligence agencies to give them the data that agreed with what they wanted and to cherry pick, change, or ignore, the data they did not like.
* Bush family had a cozy relationship with the bin Laden family, through the Carlyle Group
* Halliburton memes
* Bush was in bed with the Taliban to build a gas pipeline across Afghanistan, plus other vested interests
* Bush is an idiot [see previous 4 items]
* worst economy since Hoover [starting in 2003]
* jobless recovery
* Bush Admin official called (insert name) unpatriotic
* Joe Willson proved Saddam did NOT try to buy uranium from Niger
* Valerie Plame did NOT recommend her husband Joe Wilson for the mission to Niger
* Bush Admin intentionally & illegally exposed an undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame
* anyone who questions Bush is a traitor &/or unpatriotic
* Bush proposed a ban on gay marriage
* Bush = fascist
* Bush = Nazi
* Bush was a puppet of Cheney
* Cheney was in the pocket of Halliburton
* Bush was in the pocket of Big Oil
* Big Oil was behind the huge spike in oil prices
* Bush is an idiot [see previous 4 items]
* Supreme Court nominees out of the mainstream
* Bush will have to bring back the draft
* culture of corruption
* US committed atrocities with the tacit approval reaching the highest levels of the Bush Admin
* Guantanamo Bay = American Gulag
* US Soldiers compared to Nazi's, Stallin & Pol Pot
* various torture & abuse memes (Abu Ghraib & Guantanamo Bay, etc.)
* ACORN is a non-partisan group
* Bush violates the Constitution
* illegal, domestic spying,
* Iraq, civil war memes
* Presidential Purge
* 15 British soldiers kidnapped by Iran = Bush's Gulf of Tonkin
* "global warming", now called "climate change" [because global temperatures have not gone up in over a decade] is settled science
* global warming, 'er.... I mean "climate change" is mainly due to pollutants created by man
* under Bush our air, water & land is more polluted now than in the 1990's
* Bush administration "gutted" the Clean Air Act & endangered the environmental progress of the last 40 years to benefit of Big Business
* Dem's in Congress calling Bush's surge a failure before the troops were deployed to Iraq
* the Bush administration will suspend the Constitution & not relinquish control of the gov't in 2008
* Bush is an idiot [see previous 4 items]
* Bush Admin directly responsible for the banking crisis
* Bush Admin directly responsible for the collapse of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
* Bush Admin economic policies directly responsible for the current "depression"
* Bush Admin approved illegal torture practices
* the CIA told the truth when some members illegally leaked info meant to harm Bush, but the CIA lied & regularly misled Dem's in Congress about Bush's "torture" practices
* etc., etc., etc. |
