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Mission Accomplished...
...I just had one more thought on this.
Yes, he never uttered these words. Yes, it was a banner on the ship, supposedly hung by the sailors.
However...
That ship was operating off the coast of California, and the White House media people spent several hundred thousand tax-dollars to turn the thing around so that the cameras would pick up the right views of open ocean behind Bush as he made his speech.
Now, in this time of soundbite politics, propaganda techniques of which Goebbels would have been proud, and manipulative media, your suggestion that the "Mission Accomplished" banner just happened to be there, just happened to be in shot, and was not a part of a carefully stage-managed propaganda event is simply naive in the extreme.
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on February 13, 2005 at 6:25 AM
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I Have Written Extensively...
...about all of this stuff in the past, and feel reluctant to repeat myself here.
There are, however, three points that need addressing.
Illegality of the War - if you are building the case for the Iraq invasion purely on the breaking of UN resolutions (as the Shrub himself is now forced to do, now the WMD myth has been blown out of the water) then answer me this. Iraq broke 12 UN resolutions and this, apparently, was enough to trigger an invasion. Israel has so far broken 64 UN resolutions, and continues to receive $2 billion a year in arms and cash from America. Can you see why Muslims might be a little irritated at the double standards here?
Prick in a jumpsuit - I stand by this assessment. It is directed solely at Bush - not at you, not at your son, and not at your father. It's directed at Bush not because I hate him, as you frequently suggest (I don't hate him - he's not worth the energy) but because he's about the only man in history to be taught to fly AFTER he joined the National Guard. On Bush Family Fortunes, I saw a real pilot - like your son - say that, in order to get into the National Guard as a pilot, you have to have no less than five years experience in the air force. I then watched him break down and cry at the shame of Bush's position.
The Geneva Conventions - greater legal minds than yours (or mine) have made the judgement that many of the events in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo Bay, in Abu Ghraib, are illegal under these conventions. The alternative view is that Bush knows the conventions are there, knows the spirit of them, and is quite happy to ride rough-shod over them anyway, just because he can. What he's failing to see is that he's setting many a dangerous precedent, some of which are bound to ricochet back into the faces of American forces personnel, if not the American people. A more sensible option would be to create a new set of rules for this new type of war - a war against an adjective - and stick to those. But for a "leader" too cowardly even to sign up to the International Criminal Court, because he knows America would fall foul of it every week, this is far too much to expect.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on February 13, 2005 at 5:49 AM
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We all have our binkies.
I just don't have one who is a politician. But to each his/her/its own.
barnabee
posted by
barnabee
on February 8, 2005 at 8:18 PM
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Writerof light, Not that it matters, but I think Damonleigh is a woman.
posted by
kingmi
on February 8, 2005 at 7:47 PM
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Thanks for reading, and thanks, barnabee, for a good laugh! Come to the light, damon . . .
posted by
WriterofLight
on February 8, 2005 at 7:41 PM
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Sarooster...
the liberals are more ignorant than you thought. They always are; always have been; always will be.
Good post writeroflight!
posted by
RedStatesMan
on February 8, 2005 at 7:23 PM
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The last part on the Geneva Conventions is most telling!
If the liberals don't understand this part of the deal then they either can't read or are more ignorant than I thought.
posted by
sarooster
on February 8, 2005 at 3:25 AM
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Cheers!
Give me a "B"
"B!"
Give me a "U"!
"U!"
Give me a "S!"
"S!"
Give me an "H!"
"H!"
What's it spell?
WriteofLight's binky!
posted by
barnabee
on February 7, 2005 at 10:44 PM
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