Like a bad joke that’s gone on way after everyone has stopped laughing, Bush continues to insinuate that there was some link between 9/11 and Iraq.
Example: In his speech on 6/28, Bush stated
They are trying to shake our will in Iraq, just as they tried to shake our will on September 11, 2001. They will fail.
The entire speech contained similar little gems … all continuing Bush’s paranoid and specious assertions that Iraq was necessitated by 9/11 and the war on terror.
Um, Jefe? Tu eres loco. There never was, and still isn’t (all that bad intel you ordered, ‘member?) a link between 9/11 and anything in pre-invasion Iraq.
It’s this kind of thing from Bush that makes me apopleptic. It’s one thing for a President to lie. But to continue to lie when confronted with thousands of body bags evokes a Johnson-esque aura of paranoid betrayal of the American people.
Now Playing: Episode 352
McCain vs. Obama, More on Afghanistan and poppies and the story of the anthrax attacks takes a surprising turn.
Links Mentioned: Greenwald on the anthrax case … that NYT mag piece on Afghanistan … listen to the author on “To the Point” … the new McCain attack ad.
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From the - Leg wetting facts you can’t live without department.
Warren S. Anderson
(The following calibration of dollars appeared in the Midwestern News)
With the help of two bank tellers, a stack of bills totaling $1,000 was calibrated at 4.75 inches high. That means that 1 Million is 395 feet high. That makes 1 Billion 75 miles high, and 1 Trillion is 75,000 miles high.
The U.S. national debt is now approaching 8.5 Trillion dollars. That is about 2 ½ times the average distance to the moon, and it is growing at a rate of about 11 additional miles per day.
If laid out flat in one sheet, it would be just about enough to gift wrap Manhattan Island.
If stacked on edge, you could pave a 2 lane highway for 4,000 miles.
Have a nice day!