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


To: Land Shark who wrote (578481)5/26/2004 8:53:10 AM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
The Pulitzer Prize winning Carl Bernstein thinks the GOP controlled CONgress has failed to hold Bush accountable for his actions...

commondreams.org

<<...When politics topples principles

To curtail any hint of dissension in the ranks, Bush scheduled a "pep rally" with congressional Republicans — speaking 35 minutes, after which, characteristically, he took no questions and lawmakers dutifully circled the wagons.

What did George W. Bush know and when did he know it? Another wartime president, Harry Truman, observed that the buck stops at the president's desk, not the Pentagon.

But among Republicans today, there seems to be scant interest in asking tough questions — or honoring the example of courageous leaders of Congress who, not long ago, stepped forward, setting principle before party, to hold accountable presidents who put their country in peril...>>



To: Land Shark who wrote (578481)5/26/2004 3:36:45 PM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
That's not what happened. Liberals tend to exaggerate everything to the point of being ridiculous. How soon ye of little faith have forgotten al Qaeda's beheading of an innocent American. You don't repeat that authentic atrocity to the point of causing nausea. In your muddled partisan mind, the greater sin was forced nudity of those holding valuable information that could save American lives. You're a better friend to al Qaeda than you are to your fellow Americans.

Listen to the UK's PM Blair....he's a brilliant man with common sense & has stated that the prison photos were disgraceful but pale in comparison to the enemy's real atrocities. Liberal Americans prefer to ignore his opinions.