Bush Again Invokes 9/11 With Regard to Iraq
(via Reuters)
Well, the good news is that Bush continues to claim we won't just pull out of Iraq. The bad news is that he's still doing nothing to increase the likelyhood that we'll succeed there. Instead of doing the kinds of things that would make it rational to be resolute about the war, he continues to just exhort us to be resolute. I guess we should expect this from our first "CEO president." Maybe he's really our first president from the marketing division...
He also continues to invoke 9/11. He doesn't anymore come right out and say that Saddam was responsible for 9/11, but he still works those references in, getting that meme into people's psyches. Man, there really may be a place for him in marketing when he leaves office...
(via Reuters)
Well, the good news is that Bush continues to claim we won't just pull out of Iraq. The bad news is that he's still doing nothing to increase the likelyhood that we'll succeed there. Instead of doing the kinds of things that would make it rational to be resolute about the war, he continues to just exhort us to be resolute. I guess we should expect this from our first "CEO president." Maybe he's really our first president from the marketing division...
He also continues to invoke 9/11. He doesn't anymore come right out and say that Saddam was responsible for 9/11, but he still works those references in, getting that meme into people's psyches. Man, there really may be a place for him in marketing when he leaves office...
posted by Winston Smith at
5:05 PM
4 Comments:
Even more ridiculous was the blatant politicization of the V-E day anniversary today: I watched on Fox News as he blathered for ten minutes about the similarities between the war in Iraq and World War Two, at some points getting downright psychotic (at one point he referred to a soldier having the "sparkle of victory" in his eyes). The best moment was when he connected suicide bombers in Iraq to kamikazi pilots! It was priceless and some of the best proof that the Bush message machine is running out of ways to spin Iraq.
The WWII--Gulf War II analogy is obviously cracked...but there IS an obvious similarity b/w kamikazis and contemporary suicide bombers, isn't there?
Yes, they are superficially similar phenomena, but the ridiculousness was Bush's attempt to argue that the occupation and rebuilding of Japan and Iraq are similar due to the presence of suicidal attacks in both. That's 100% all-natural crazy.
"I'm not really a president, but I play one on TV, and 4 out of 5 dentists say...."
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