Posted on 09/29/2004 4:18:56 PM PDT by johannes89a
CBS has now laid down the gauntlet and accused President Bush of a series of serious "flip-flops." Is this revenge for Rathergate?
David Kuhn, chief political writer at cbsnews.com discusses the following ten "flip-flops" of policy and action in his article Bush's Top Ten Flip-Flops:
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Nation-building in Iraq
Iraq and the September 11th Attacks
The September 11th Commission
Free Trade
Homeland Security Department
Same Sex Marriage
Winning the War on Terror
Campaign Finance Reform
Gas Prices
Great zot! Does this mean that he suffers from ... logorrhea?!?
What a coincidence. Guess CBS realizes there's no turning back now...
I would pull their press credentials.
Then I will pull their FCC license.
In fact, have they even done ONE hit piece on Kerry?
Warm-up act for tomorrow's debates.
That's a lie. bush NEVER said that Hussein was linked to 9-11.
During the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush argued against nation building and foreign military entanglements. In the second presidential debate, he said: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's got to be.'"
True, Bush said that.
The United States is currently involved in nation building in Iraq on a scale unseen since the years immediately following World War II.
Not quite, the United States is currently engaged in lancing the Mideast boil and preparing forward operating bases should the need ever arise to wage war against Iran and Syria. Pre 9/11 thought in a post 9/11 world does not obtain.
During the 2000 election, Mr. Bush called for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the NATO peacekeeping mission in the Balkans. His administration now cites such missions as an example of how America must "stay the course."
He has a point here but I might add that President Clinton committed troops to the Balknas absent UN resolutions and more importantly without an authorization by the US Congress.
Who pays any attention to SeeBS?
...and the funny thing is, CBS actually thinks re-iterating this tired old saw about WMD, September 11th, and nation building is going to save their precious 60 Minutes.
Rather should join Kerry and move to France or socialist pot-smoking Canada. The Land of the Free has no room for lies and slanders like these.
CBS is still on the air?
These are not flip flops even by a stretch of the imagination.
That leaves CBS lying again.
This is just boring, and a lame swipe at David Letterman for making fun of them.
But the difference between Bush and Kerry is evident even to a dispassionate observer. The latter changes position for the sake of gaining popularity. The former has the best interests of the United States of America at heart as he considers the big picture.
Kerry is not a mere "flip-flopper." He flips, flops, and flips again. Thank goodness in about one month he will flop for the last time.
Anyone have an addy for the FCC where we can all wrtie a protest ?
You would do well to care about blatant and false propaganda being presented in the guise of "journalism".
Clearly you already hold the source in disdain. That they continue to behave this way is a matter of import, yes.
In a press conference in September 2002, six months before the invasion of Iraq, President Bush said, “you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror... they're both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.”
A factual statement. Saddam Hussein gave sanctuary to the worst of the worst, Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, Zarqawi, the PLF and on and on. He also paid bounty for the heads of dead Israelis and Americans killed by islamofascists in Israel. Only a complete moron would fail to note that Hussein was inextricably linked to terrorists.
In September of 2004, Mr. Bush said: “We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September 11th." Though he added that “there's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties,” the statement seemingly belied earlier assertions that Saddam and al Qaeda were “equally bad.”
This is simply a logical fallacy that a two year old could identify and debunk.
The Sept. 11 commission found there was no evidence Saddam was linked to the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Which is exactly the position the Bush administration has always taken. There is lots of evidence that Hussein and Iraq were involved with the first WTC bombing however.
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