Bush really needs a dictionary
Bush, defending his foreign policy and trying to bolster his bid for a second term, states that
Wow. What a broad misstatement. You know, I don’t think a man who starts a war because “remember he tried to kill my daddy” gets to make that kind of statement! Not to mention all the other troubles during King Bush’s reign: September 11th, the war in Afganistan, an Orange alert every few months or so (whenever his approval ratings look to be in danger of sinking even lower), Anthrax in the mail, snipers in D.C., etc. Peace? This is peace!?
And what freedom? We’re living in a time where CDs come with encryption so that not everbody that buys it can actually listen to it — and they certainly can’t make backup copies. Federal agents can now break into houses without notifying the owner and without warrants. Privacy is being run out of the door by facial-recognition systems and Carnivore email interception machines. Researchers are afraid to publish their work for fear of being sued/arrested under the DMCA. The list goes on and on.
What peace? What freedom?
I can’t believe we have a president that either 1) has such a frail understanding of these concepts that he actually believes what he is saying, 2) has such a limited knowledge of what is actually going on around him that he thinks he is telling the truth, or 3) is willing and/or able to make such bald lies in order to protect his already meager approval percentage.
So I’m convinced that there was a key clause under Bush’s statement that must have been absently clipped on the speech-writing floor:
than it was during World War II