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roachboy · 11-17-2005, 03:42 PM

on no. 18: this dichtomoy is ridiculous. the fact of the matter is quite simple: the administration cooked intel about the situation in iraq. period. as the head of the administration, george w. bush is responsible for the actions of his administration. and don't think for a minute that any other administration would have undertaken the war in iraq--it had nothing to do with 9/11/2001, was and remains a tragic nonsequitor---and because this administration chose to follow this policy, launch and pursue this war, then its chief
must take the fall for it.

the right's new tack--presenting bush as some kind of victim in this--is passive voice taken to a surreal conclusion ("mistakes were made"--remember reagan's heroic use of this phrasing?)--you would think that the political organization that spends so much time blathering about personal responsibility when it suits their purposes would not be falling for this nonsense.

just goes to show an old point: the contemporary far right talks about personal responsibility only when it applies to other people. for themselves--as self-appointed representatives of god, presumably----anything goes.

no-one can possibly take the argument that opened this thread, the title of the thread, of politicophile's attempt to recapitulate the same thing in no. 18 seriously.
there is nothing to take seriously.

the concerns raised by this, however--another 3 years of this horrifying administration--the question of how they intend to govern given the blowback from their previous choices--for which no-one and nothing is responsible but this administration---are real. and i genuinely wonder about the motivation behind the administration's line that it began to trot out over the weekend.

11-17-2005, 03:42 PM	#28 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	on no. 18: this dichtomoy is ridiculous. the fact of the matter is quite simple: the administration cooked intel about the situation in iraq. period. as the head of the administration, george w. bush is responsible for the actions of his administration. and don't think for a minute that any other administration would have undertaken the war in iraq--it had nothing to do with 9/11/2001, was and remains a tragic nonsequitor---and because this administration chose to follow this policy, launch and pursue this war, then its chief must take the fall for it. the right's new tack--presenting bush as some kind of victim in this--is passive voice taken to a surreal conclusion ("mistakes were made"--remember reagan's heroic use of this phrasing?)--you would think that the political organization that spends so much time blathering about personal responsibility when it suits their purposes would not be falling for this nonsense. just goes to show an old point: the contemporary far right talks about personal responsibility only when it applies to other people. for themselves--as self-appointed representatives of god, presumably----anything goes. no-one can possibly take the argument that opened this thread, the title of the thread, of politicophile's attempt to recapitulate the same thing in no. 18 seriously. there is nothing to take seriously. the concerns raised by this, however--another 3 years of this horrifying administration--the question of how they intend to govern given the blowback from their previous choices--for which no-one and nothing is responsible but this administration---are real. and i genuinely wonder about the motivation behind the administration's line that it began to trot out over the weekend. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 11-17-2005 at 03:46 PM..