Doug, re LBJ, are you referring to the lie about the North Vietnamese firing on the destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin?
-Ben > If you can rely on the accuracy of the Washington Post, then the Quote is > accurate, while the statement is not. > > If it is an accurate quote, then I expect that over time, it will be brought > back to haunt him. > > You can bet the Democrats will keep it alive and well, just as the Republicans > did with the quotes from his predecessor. > > Strange, though, a lie about the justification for going to war, was last used > by a Democrat; i.e. Lyndon Johnson who relied on his Secretary of Defense, > McNamara, who just before death admitted he lied. Will Rumsfield eventually do > the same? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andy Ousterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:36 PM > Subject: RE: Bush does it again :-) > > > | While I haven't seen this yet, perhaps it will be on the news tonight, I > | would need to understand the context prior to forming a judgment. For > | example, what question prompted this answer and what was the complete > | answer. I am very wary of any single sentence quotes. It is too easy to > | misunderstand what was actually communicated. > | > | And maybe, just maybe, the reason almost nobody quoted him was that it > | wasn't newsworthy. > | > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:05 PM > | To: CF-Community > | Subject: Bush does it again :-) > | > | > | "July 15, 2003 | A "darn good" quote that almost nobody quoted > | "We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let > | them in." > | George W. Bush uttered that amazing sentence yesterday to justify the > | war in Iraq, according to the Washington Post. > | > | What? Yes, I promise that's what the man said. (And by "him," the > | president clearly meant Saddam Hussein -- not Kim Jong Il, who actually > | has refused to let international inspectors into North Korea.) > | > | Now a presidential statement so frontally at variance with the > | universally acknowledged facts obviously presents a problem for the > | White House press corps. He wasn't joking, and he didn't sound > | disoriented or unwell. Although Dana Priest and Dana Milbank wrote the > | story as delicately as they possibly could, they couldn't make it seem > | less weird: > | > | "The president's assertion that the war began because Iraq did not admit > | inspectors appeared to contradict the events leading up to war this > | spring: Hussein had, in fact, admitted the inspectors and Bush had > | opposed extending their work because he did not believe them effective." > | > | Appeared to contradict the events leading up to war? Indeed, that's an > | exceedingly mild description of what Bush said. There's no plausible > | explanation, unless the president suddenly flashed back to his Yale > | sophomore philosophy seminar, grappling with the argument that > | everything we perceive is mere illusion. > | > | For the moment, however, let's just assume reality does exist. What > | possessed the president to make an assertion that everyone on the planet > | knows to be untrue? And who is going to take the responsibility for this > | one? Did George Tenet vet Bush's statement? Do the British have a secret > | dossier proving that Saddam never actually admitted Hans Blix and the > | UNMOVIC teams? Will Condi Rice or Donald Rumsfeld show up on Fox News > | next weekend to explain why Bush's statement is "technically accurate," > | even though he shouldn't have said it? > | > | As hard to explain as what Bush said is the press corps' failure to > | report his stunning gaffe. The sentence quoted above doesn't appear in > | today's New York Times report, for example. Yet there is no question > | about what he said -- undoubtedly to the amazement of both Kofi Annan, > | who was sitting beside him at the time, and the dozens of reporters who > | were present during their brief joint press conference. > | > | Anyone who doesn't believe me (or the Post) can watch Bush say the exact > | words quoted above here, toward the end of the White House's own > | videotape of his remarks, under the headline "President Reaffirms Strong > | Position on Liberia." > | > | Another recent president once said something that was blatantly untrue, > | if fairly trivial, and the videotape of his statement was replayed > | again, and again, and again, and again ... > | > | -Joe Conason" > | > | -Gel > | > | > | > | > | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
