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In reply to the discussion: Message auto-removed [View all]scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)What you posted is an excerpt from the forward to his book, How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From a President Run Amok in which he explained that he, like most Americans at that time, thought that our government knew what it was doing, so he simply went along with it. He was apolitical, didn't even vote.
But you won't post the REST of his forward where he explains how the scales fell from his eyes and he decided to do something about it - and so he started a blog in 2005 to expose the lies and malfeasance of the Bush Adminstration. 2005, this was AFTER the wars were already going. 2005 was when he made his FIRST public pronouncements about his opinions on the wars and the Bush Administration - and his public life began with writing piece after piece in opposition to them.
Prior to 2005 he did not write one public word about Bush or the wars or anything else. NOT ONE PUBLIC WORD.
So you're smearing him based on his own admittance that he was just going along with things, not questioning, like most Americans at that time, until he realized that something was really rotten about what was happening. And once he had that realization, he started blogging, and his blog was all about calling out the Bush Administration.
And let me point out again, that the excerpt you and your friends so love to wave around like a bloody shirt is from his forward to his book titled, How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From a President Run Amok Yeah, that's the kind of book a Bush supporter would write.
The stench of how you folks twist this is absolutely unbelievable. It makes me gag.