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ok, so i gotta share this with somebody. this is the front page of our local rag:
this is the letter that i wrote as a result:
Today, I walked through our cafeteria at work and saw the headline of your Thursday Reading Eagle with the headline, Bush Criticizes Kerry on munitions issue.
I had to look again at the date - for a moment, I thought I must've overslept a few months - and that John Kerry had won the November election. I mean, that's the only logical assumption I could make, since John Kerry is not (at present) our Commander-In-Chief. And, since Bush is still at the helm, this begs the question:
Who's in charge here?
The word "irresponsible" isn't strong or vivid enough to hang upon the lack of journalistic integrity it must take to print that. The blame for what happened at Al-QaQaa rests at the top of the chain of command, no matter how you slice it. Bush has steadfastly refused to hold anyone else "downhill" responsible for the atrocities of this ill-fated war, from Abu Gharib to this most recent bungling. Instead, we have Bush footsoldiers like Rudy Giuliani appearing on the Today Show saying things like this:
"The president was cautious - the president was prudent - the president did what a commander in chief should do. No matter how you try to blame it on the president the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?"
So while our President is accusing Kerry of slandering our troops by criticizing Bush's ineptness, his RNC cronies are laying the blame at our brave soldiers' feet for not being capable of being in several places at once.
As an aside, your picture shows a group of Amish supporters holding a Veterans for Bush poster - I'm not even gonna touch the irony in that...not in print, anyway.
Tom Hampton
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there's your media at work, berks county.
ok, so i gotta share this with somebody. this is the front page of our local rag:
this is the letter that i wrote as a result:
Today, I walked through our cafeteria at work and saw the headline of your Thursday Reading Eagle with the headline, Bush Criticizes Kerry on munitions issue.
I had to look again at the date - for a moment, I thought I must've overslept a few months - and that John Kerry had won the November election. I mean, that's the only logical assumption I could make, since John Kerry is not (at present) our Commander-In-Chief. And, since Bush is still at the helm, this begs the question:
Who's in charge here?
The word "irresponsible" isn't strong or vivid enough to hang upon the lack of journalistic integrity it must take to print that. The blame for what happened at Al-QaQaa rests at the top of the chain of command, no matter how you slice it. Bush has steadfastly refused to hold anyone else "downhill" responsible for the atrocities of this ill-fated war, from Abu Gharib to this most recent bungling. Instead, we have Bush footsoldiers like Rudy Giuliani appearing on the Today Show saying things like this:
"The president was cautious - the president was prudent - the president did what a commander in chief should do. No matter how you try to blame it on the president the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?"
So while our President is accusing Kerry of slandering our troops by criticizing Bush's ineptness, his RNC cronies are laying the blame at our brave soldiers' feet for not being capable of being in several places at once.
As an aside, your picture shows a group of Amish supporters holding a Veterans for Bush poster - I'm not even gonna touch the irony in that...not in print, anyway.
Tom Hampton
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there's your media at work, berks county.
posted by tom at 15:10
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