“Mr. President, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism,” he was asked by a reporter. “If a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former secretary of state feels this way, don’t you think that Americans and the rest of the world are beginning to wonder whether you’re following a flawed strategy?”
“If there’s any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it’s flawed logic,” Bush said. “It’s just — I simply can’t accept that. It’s unacceptable to think that there’s any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.”

Let’s look at those statements, skipping the ‘unacceptable’ part:

…any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it’s flawed logic.

…any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.

In the first he refers to the American people. In the next he refers to the behavior of the USA. He falsely equates both with his administration.

He is neither “the American people”, nor “the USA”. He is the head of his administration, and it is becoming more evident by the day that it is quite thinkable to equate the actions of his adminstration and himself with “the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective”.

And that’s why he’s so angry, and needs a retroactive pass for the laws he’s broken, both national and international. You can bet that once he’s out of office he’ll never leave the country lest he be nabbed and shipped off to The Hague for trial.

Isn’t Firefox a disney product?

NOOOOO Firefox is NOT Disney!!! But Netscape is a AOL/Time Warner product…you are better off with FireFox than Netscape.

I haven’t read anyone addressing what Bush actually said re Powell’s statement. Bush “interpreted” it (wrongly, self-servingly) to mean a comparison between the US moral stance and the terrorists’ moral stance. Which he then indignantly rejected. But Powell didn’t say that. He didn’t say, Now we’re as bad as the terrorists. What he said was, Now we are abandoning the moral posture that has made us great. The comparison is to be made, not between us and terrorists (as Bush pretended he’d said), but between our current moral behavior (under Bush), and our previous, better moral behavior.

I know, I know–I’m implying that Bush is dishonest. Well, deal with it.

*ilson46201 @ 39

the edit button is active for 5 minutes after you post your fucked up comment. Click it and that gawdful drivel and scrivening appears in your usual commenting box — you have a chance to edit and change it into a witty aphorism or trenchant comment or gai bon mot – as you wish… Click ’save’ and it’s wafted once again to the awaiting eyes of the great unwashed masses …

Or not… When I click that (expletive deleted) button I get a completely BLANK comment box, just as if I wanted to start ab ovo, hence I still don’t know what to do…

I get it, too, and a “javascript error” warning icon in the lower left hand corner of my IE 6.0 browser.

While I love KO and look for every opportunity to dislike Bush even more (if that’s possible), in this case it appears the president (sic) was simply saying he doesn’t agree with those who draw the comparison. However, he said it in a way that let KO pretend we should take the president’s words as literal.

I hope KO doesn’t make it a habit to read more into Bush’s comments than Bush intends. This administration gives KO plenty to work with; he needn’t twist a partial sentence into something it wasn’t. It cheapens KO’s tirade; makes it look manufactured. And I say that as a fervent fan.

KO actually gave Bushwhacker a break. If you read Bush’s actual words, he accused Powell of subverting the actions of the “American people”, not himself. No, none of this is Bush’s fault in his tiny mind. It’s all the will of the “American people”, better known as PNAC.

Peace!

I compare Bush’s actions (in no way the actions of most of the people of the United States as he claims) to the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective. This is exactly what Bush is doing under the guise of freedom, while also destroying a country and its culture.