Gary Hart flays Bush administration and sounds like a candidate!

[Hart2008]

Excerpts from attached article“J’Accuse!” by Gary Hart, former US Senator and presidential candidate, writer, world traveler and co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century (the pre-9-11 Commission):

“This administration stands indicted for incompetence and mendacity. That it still commands the loyalty of even a quarter of our fellow citizens is testament to the persistence of willful ignorance. Against all the facts assembled in this indictment, that the administration's operatives can still make claims on strength, security, and determination is chutzpah on stilts.”

“That the media still treat these operatives and spokespersons, and indeed the president himself, seriously is witness to their desire for "access" and "sources" rather than their commitment to the truth.”

“The Bush administration was warned months before 9/11 that terrorists were going to attack America. They did nothing. They have yet to be held accountable for the preventable loss of American lives.”

“The perpetrator of those American deaths is still at large and the war to eliminate those who harbored him threatens to drag on inconclusively for many years. Instead, administration operatives, with the approval of their masters, find it convenient to use him to create fear, and therefore justify their positions of power.”

“The United States has suffered more than 30,000 casualties in another war that had nothing to do with those attacks.”

“The backbone of domestic security, the National Guard, is deployed in that war and is thus not at home being trained, equipped, and deployed to protect America.”

“(The administration’s) political philosophy does not believe government can or should be effective. And they use every occasion to prove it.”

“We are too old to behave as adolescents any longer. That includes particularly our president. America must grow up. We must redeem ourselves in the name of those who lost their lives unnecessarily six years ago. We must reclaim our dignity and our honor from those who have neither.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/jaccuse_b_63783.html