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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 09:45 PM
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31. Huffington: "How convenient for the president’s apologists ....
.... to use the attacks to absolve him of his responsibility to deal with thorny issues he doesn’t really want to.

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Wait a minute, if we let terrorists set the international agenda doesn’t that mean, you know, that they win?

The London bombings will not make global warming go away. The London bombings will not make the crises in Africa go away. They also won’t make it okay for Bush to appoint right-wing extremists to the Supreme Court or make his plan to privatize Social Security acceptable or make John Bolton a good choice for the UN.

And they sure as hell don’t make Bush's lack of a plan for Iraq any less of a disaster for America.

Indeed, it’s precisely because the war on terror is -- and was, even before the London bombings -- the number one issue that we have to have an exit strategy for Iraq. If Bush and his backers in the media are really serious about the war on terror, ......

From Approve the Bush Agenda... or the Terrorists Win! :sarcasm: by Arianna Huffington

July 8, 2005

More at the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/arianna-huffington/approve-the-bush-agenda_3870.html


Ms Huffington, once again, calls out the complicit corporate media machine, aka, the neoconster propaganda tools, for exactly what they are.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Halt terror on America; begin by demanding Voter-Verified Paper Ballots.
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