{"id":238,"date":"2006-01-12T06:35:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-01-12T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T17:39:03","slug":"from-the-great-divider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/from-the-great-divider\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Great Divider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush says some war critics irresponsible<\/a> By Steve <\/p>\n

Holland<\/p>\n

“A country that divides into factions and dwells on old grievances cannot move forward and risks sliding back <\/p>\n

into tyranny<\/em>,”<\/strong> Bush said.<\/p>\n

Wow. Of course, in the quote above, Bush was referring to Iraq. <\/p>\n

In the same speech, he advised his adversaries to “watch their words.” Spoken like a true tyrant. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bush to critics: Don’t <\/p>\n

‘comfort our adversaries’<\/a> BY JENNIFER LOVEN<\/p>\n

President Bush warned<\/em> Democratic critics of his Iraq policy on Tuesday <\/p>\n

to watch what they say<\/strong> or risk giving ”comfort to our adversaries” and suffering at the ballot box in November. <\/p>\n

Democrats said Bush should take his own advice.<\/p>\n

There are still 10 months left before congressional elections; a recent AP-Ipsos <\/p>\n

poll found Americans prefer Democratic control of Congress over a continued GOP majority by 49 percent to 36 percent. But Bush is wasting <\/p>\n

no time engaging the battle. …<\/p>\n

He said he welcomed ”honest critics,” but he termed irresponsible ”partisan critics who <\/p>\n

claim that we acted in Iraq because of oil or because of Israel or because we misled the American people,” as well as ”defeatists <\/p>\n

who refuse to see that anything is right.”<\/p>\n

With that description, Bush lumped the many Democrats who have accused him of <\/p>\n

twisting prewar intelligence with the few people, mostly outside the mainstream, who have raised issues of oil and Israel. …<\/p>\n

Democrats said Bush has no business trying to define what sort of talk is acceptable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ACLU president draws links between Bush spying, Nixon lying and Martin Luther King <\/p>\n

Jr.<\/a> by Daniel Strumpf<\/p>\n

The ACLU recently placed two full-page ads in The New York Times comparing Bush to Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is a very strong comparison between the two, in terms of having such an exaggerated sense of the power of the <\/p>\n

executive branch to ride roughshod over the rights of people<\/strong> who aren\u2019t even suspected of any crimes at all other than political <\/p>\n

dissent,\u201d she said. \u201cTo me, that links up directly to Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n

\u201cMartin Luther King should be remembered not only for <\/p>\n

his towering contributions to social justice and racial equality but also as a victim of government spying and abuses of power by the FBI <\/p>\n

because of disagreement with his ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strossen points out that King was punished for attempting to exercise his First Amendment <\/p>\n

rights and draws a direct analogy to the monitoring of citizens Bush perceives to be enemies of the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush says some war critics irresponsible By Steve Holland “A country that divides into factions and dwells on old grievances cannot move forward and risks sliding back into tyranny,” Bush said. Wow. Of course, in the quote above, Bush was referring to Iraq. In the same speech, he advised his adversaries to “watch their words.” … Continue reading From the Great Divider<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}