Deadweight of the Union
Although I didn’t watch or listen to Bush’s State of the Union address last night, I recommend the following critiques pulled from other blogs:
Charles at Six Different Ways:
But how is the invasion going to “force them to disarm” to quote The President? Say they’re 500 feet underground in some desert bunker. Somewhere - though we don’t know where- in a country that big. Are we just going to blast away every square inch of the country? And if we do, won’t this stuff still be there in the bunkers? I don’t get it.
Rowan at Uncommon Thought:
BUSH QUOTE: “And as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will bring to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies - and freedom.” AFTER we have blocked them with sanctions for 12 years! Is this a bribe?
Brooke at the bitter shack:
…So basically, in order to prevent Saddam from using his weapons of mass destruction on his own people, we’re going to beat him to it. Saddam can’t kill ‘em if we kill ‘em first! I’m so proud.
Jonathan Delacour at the heart of things:
God give me fucking strength. “Placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history” as Bush prepares “to shatter Iraq ‘physically, emotionally and psychologically’ by raining down on its people as many as 800 cruise missiles in two days.” Wasn’t irony supposed to have died on September 11?…And this a week after he declared January 20 to be National Sanctity of Human Life Day, which I imagined was some bizarre joke…
John Moyers at TomPaine.com:
Real conservatives promote fiscal prudence, public accountability and limited government. But the agenda promoted by Mr. Bush and his party, as outlined in the State of the Union speech, is a sad parody of those values. Bush and company are running a con game - they seek to gain our CONfidence by assuring us they are CONservative. But their desire to hold political power has trumped genuine public-spirited principle and the values they profess.