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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (105871)	3/10/2009 2:49:19 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541906

I'm not sure what the point of this debate was... Rush didn't say "I think we're headed in the wrong direction." Rush presumes to know what the right direction is, unlike most mortals who simply take an educated guess and try to make things better, adjusting as they go. I found a transcript on Faux News site... foxnews.com Just prior to his defense he starts saying "As I say, we want the best: Happiness for everybody." Including liberals or others that disagree? No. That is just a lie. He doesn't share my vision and doesn't want ME to be happy. Then he continues comparing the worst economic environment of the last 100 years to his support of a team in a Super Bowl game. A vapid comparison, but he can choose to trivialize the worst economic incident since 1929. Then he coaches the crowd to with "Did the Democrats want the war on Iraq to fail! " (sic). The crowd cheers Yes on cue. "They certainly did. They not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure. " Another lie. The Democrats I heard said the policies in Iraq were a failure not that they personally wanted Bush to fail in Iraq. And looking back, I think it is correct to say that compared to what Bush said leading up to his Mission Accomplished speech, with myriad WMD claims and beyond, the war was a failure. It wasn't a cakewalk as Cheney said it would be. Bush said the major conflict was over. It wasn't and that was a failure. Nobody "wanted" it to be a failure - but we got it none-the-less.