“”bush’s campaign pitch follows their usual backward logic: because we have failed to make you safe, you should re-elect us to make you safer. because we haven’t caught osama in three years, you need us to catch osama in the next four years. because we didn’t bother to secure explosives in iraq, you can count on us to make sure those explosives aren’t used against you…””

-ny times, sunday october 31

“”a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.””
-gw bush regarding the 380 tons of missing explosives

so how about jumping into war without knowing the facts about iraq’s non-existent weapons program?
how about jumping into war without knowing the facts about al-qaeda not being in iraq?
how about jumping into war without knowing the facts about how much the war would cost?
how about jumping into war without knowing the facts about how long the war might take?
how about jumping into war without the facts to support a realistic plan on how to win?

-moby

wow, someone just sent this to me…
the ultimate ‘flip flop’.
moby

“”the question in my mind is how many additional american casualties is saddam worth?
and the answer is not very damned many. so i think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern iraq.
all of a sudden you’ve got a battle, you’re fighting in a major built-up city, a lot of civilians are around, significant limitations on our ability to use our most effective technologies and techniques.
once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? you know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing iraq.
now what kind of government are you going to establish? is it going to be a kurdish government, or a shi’ia government, or a sunni government, or maybe a government based on the old baathist party, or some mixture thereof? you will have, i think by that time, lost the support of the arab coalition that was so crucial to our operations over there.”” ã‘
-dick cheney, speaking about the gulf war in 1992

just a little reminder:

on sep 10, 2004, at 3:29 pm, hon. charles rangel wrote:

“”when it comes to the nation’s economy, the republicans have failed us.
under bush’s watch, america has lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, a record 45 million americans have no health insurance and more than one in six american children live in poverty.

when it comes to the management of our armed forces, the republicans have failed us worst of all. we have lost a thousand men and women in iraq, almost 7,000 are wounded, and there is no plan to bring them home. according to defense secretary donald rumsfeld, we do not even know we are not creating more terrorists than we are killing.

add to that the shameful environmental record, the erosion of civil liberties, and cuts of educational and even veterans’ programs and you have a very strong incentive to fight for the defeat of president bush in the november elections. “”

4 months ago our president said:
“”to make sure that tax cheaters are found, make sure the irs gets after those who don’t pay taxes; make sure that the system is fair for those of us who do pay taxes. we want everybody paying their fair share.””
yesterday he said, laughingly:
“”the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.””

he’s such a charmer…
moby

ny times:

senator kerry said, “”i will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war. i will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. i will have a secretary of defense who will listen to the best advice of our military leaders. and i will appoint an attorney general who actually upholds the constitution of the united states.””

congratulations senator kerry,
i’m proud to know you.
moby

‘do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? john kerry calls on us to hope. john edwards calls on us to hope.
i’m not talking about blind optimism here — the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don’t talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.
no, i’m talking about something more substantial. it’s the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; thehope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the mekong delta; the hope of a millworker’s son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that america has a place for him, too. the audacity of hope!’
-barak obama

the war on terror involves saddam hussein because of the nature of saddam hussein, the history of saddam hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

– george bush, grand rapids, mi; january 29, 2002

‘why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many dead…it’s not relevant. so, why should i waste my beautiful mind on something like that?’
-george bush’s mother barbara, march 18, 2003.

well, i think if you say you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness.

㊠– george bush, cnn august 30, 2000

‘new york is sad before it’s busy’
-adam gopnik, the new yorker

i love that quote.
-moby

rep. corrine brown, a florida democrat and memeber of the congressional black caucus, said, “” we keep hearing, ‘get over this.’ we will never get over this. the supreme court selected george w. bush as president — he was not elected.””

amen,
moby