Bush Knows His History (RW: Death and poverty, stop complaining)

[ProSense]

This is the right wing BS that's permeating the MSM:

Bush Knows His History

By Michael Barone

6/12/06

Two weeks ago, I pointed out that we live in something close to the best of times, with record worldwide economic growth and at a low point in armed conflict in the world. Yet Americans are in a sour mood, a mood that may be explained by the lack of a sense of history. The military struggle in Iraq (2,473 U.S. military deaths) is spoken of in as dire terms as Vietnam (58,219), Korea (54,246) or World War II (405,399). We bemoan the cruel injustice of $3 a gallon for gas in a country where three quarters of people classified as poor have air conditioning and microwave ovens. We complain about a tide of immigration that is, per U.S. resident, running at one third the rate of 99 years ago.

George W. Bush has a better sense of history. Speaking May 27 at the commencement ceremony at West Point--above the Hudson River where revolutionary Americans threw a chain across the water to block British ships--Bush noted that he was speaking to the first class to enter the academy after the September 11 attacks. And he put the challenge these cadets willingly undertook in perspective by looking back at the challenges America faced at the start of the Cold War 60 years ago.

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060612/12barone.htm?s_cid=rss:site1

Obviously the author doesn't know his history!

Vietnam casualties first three years:

1964 206
1965 1,863
1966 6,143

Is a few thousand less dead supposed to be comfort to grieving families?


Hundreds rally at West Point gates as Bush addresses cadets
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1304056&mesg_id=1304056


Edited to add: The RW obviously have no regard for the thousands of Iraqis being killed monthly.

:mad:

[MaineYooper]

1. the author also relies on the highly questionable assumption

that * actually writes his own speeches.

Not bloody likely.

It'd be pretty hard to write an hour's worth of obfuscation and deception with crayons and construction paper.

[TayTay]

2. Myopia on display

Barone fails to mention that the good economy is helping a few top corporate executives, but the so-called benefits are not trickling down to the rest of the workers. Americans may indeed have some air conditioners and microwave ovens. However, the price for those small appliances have been exorbitant health care costs and a loss of most pension plans. This is hardly a fair trade-off and the American worker knows this.

Barone can't understand why the average worker isn't happy that the corporate elite make 400 times what the average worker makes and has less security in a job than ever. Talk about being an elitist, out-of-touch cold bastard.

[ProSense]

4. Exactly!

Bastards! All of them!

[karynnj]

3. At least the early Americans dealt with port security

"above the Hudson River where revolutionary Americans threw a chain across the water to block British ships"

The writer's comparisons are ridiculous - especially the Iraq one - the key is where soldiers are sying for nothing.

[underpants]

5. "a low point in armed conflict in the world"?

Huh?

[ProSense]

6. The MSM is airing both two sides of the debate:

rational vs. irrational! The RW has dressed up hate and packaged it for mainstream consumption.