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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Da_bang80: [qb] Are you sure Pres. Bush isn't really Osama in disguise? or Saddam? Or Jong Il? or Adolf Hitlers clone? Propaganda's always been a huge part of warfare. Making the good guys seem good and the bad guys seem bad. Rally the masses to your cause and whatnot. I'm not at all surprised to hear about this. [/qb][/QUOTE]Of course he's not. Just because he a terrible president doesn't necessarily mean he's a terrible human being. I don't think of him as terrible human being. I think of him as just a man with a misplaced sense of mission, who has good interpersonal skills but lacks the wherewithal to facilitate the office he currently holds. I find many of his decisions problematic. In part because Mr. Bush seems to seems to have walled himself off from dissent. In essence becoming the President-In-A-Bubble. [URL=http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051205fa_fact]This[/URL] comes from a Seymour M. Hersh article in the [i]New Yorker[/i] [QUOTE]---- Current and former military and intelligence officials have told me that the President remains convinced that it is his personal mission to bring democracy to Iraq, and that he is impervious to political pressure, even from fellow Republicans. They also say that he disparages any information that conflicts with his view of how the war is proceeding. ---- The former senior official said that after the election he made a lengthy inspection visit to Iraq and reported his findings to Bush in the White House: "I said to the President, 'We're not winning the war.' And he asked, 'Are we losing?' I said, 'Not yet.' " The President, he said, "appeared displeased" with that answer. "I tried to tell him," the former senior official said. "And he couldn't hear it."[/QUOTE]And Dan Froomkin, a columnist at the Washington [i]Post[/i] ask what seem to me to be a series of good questions. [QUOTE]What does it say about the president of the United States that he won't go anywhere near ordinary citizens any more? And that he'll only speak to captive audiences? President Bush's safety zone these days doesn't appear to extend very far beyond military bases, other federal installations and Republican fundraisers. Tomorrow, Bush gives a speech on the war on terror -- at the United States Naval Academy. Then he attends a reception for Republican party donors. Today, he visits a U.S. Border Patrol office, then attends a Republican fundraising lunch. Yesterday, he spoke at an Air Force base and a Republican fundraiser. Before leaving the country on his recent trip to Asia, Bush made one last speech -- at an Air Force base in Alaska. A few days before that, he spoke at an Army depot in Pennsylvania. When he delivered a speech on Nov. 1 about bird flu, it was to an audience of National Institutes of Health employees. The best chance ordinary citizens have had in ages to be anywhere near the president comes Thursday at 5 p.m., when the Bushes participate in the Pageant of Peace tree lighting ceremony on the Ellipse. But it won't exactly be a policy speech -- and anyway, tickets to that event were distributed three weeks ago.[/QUOTE]I guess where I'm going with this line of reason is that my disappointment that there seems so little real debate on a national level about the direction of the United States wants to go in or about the direction the current adventure in Iraq is taking us or whether it's the right thing to do in the first place. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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