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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (493020)	11/15/2003 9:48:06 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 769670

>>>(AR) -- I used to think that President Richard Nixon set the gold standard for secrecy, paranoia and corruption. But President George W. Bush is coming up fast on the rail. Maybe it's because there are Nixon alumni on the president's team such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Maybe it's because of the political lessons learned from his father, the first President Bush, another Nixon alum. Maybe it's because the methods of Nixon -- the cynicism, the lying, the political trickery and the bullying of opponents -- are still effective. Whatever the reason, the present Bush administration seems determined to "out Nixon" Nixon. They have succeeded in making even the mildest criticism or question of the administration's "war on terror" tantamount to treason. They have rebuffed all attempts to obtain information on the extent of intelligence information prior the Sept. 11 attacks. They have been relentless in trying to control what the public knows about what's going on in the White House. Secrecy, paranoia and corruption. Except this isn't about illegal campaign contributions and "black bag" jobs against political enemies, as in Watergate. Or secretly selling weapons to terrorists to illegally fund a proxy army, as in the Iran-Contra affair. It's about something bigger than oral sex in the Oval Office. It's about national security and whether or not negligence and/or incompetence by the Bush administration led to the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11. Instead of getting the truth, we are getting demagoguery from the Bush administration that's straight from the Nixon playbook: deny and hedge your responses, accuse your critics of being "partisan" or even "disloyal," and change the subject if things start getting too hot. But, as Nixon found out, you can only keep doing these things for so long before the truth eventually breaks through....<<< monitor.net ** MORE **

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (493020)	11/15/2003 10:03:00 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

U.S. TV network news about Iraq as distorted as al-Jazeera? Checking in from Iraq on Wednesday’s Hardball with Chris Matthews as part of that show’s look this week at “Iraq: The Real Story,” Bob Arnot highlighted a Muslim ayatollah in Iraq who “is furious at the press coverage. He says not only American television, but Arabic satellite TV, such as Al-Jazeera and the Abu Dhabi station, have mis-portrayed the great success that is Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.” mrc.org