Bush Skips Over Eisenhower Reference to 'Crusade'

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBOQMWZZUD.html

<snip>"On this day in 1944, General Eisenhower sat down at his headquarters in the English countryside and wrote out a message to the troops who would soon invade Normandy," Bush said.

In that message, Eisenhower said: "Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."

Bush quoted Eisenhower's greeting, omitted the next sentence with the words "Great Crusade" and picked up with the line, "The eyes of the world are upon you."

Bush has been careful to avoid the word "crusade." In September 2001, he said through his spokesman that he regretted using the word, with all its historical connotations of religious war by Christians against Muslims, to describe his campaign against terrorists.

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[diamond14]

1. OMG!....altering Eisenhower's words to make it seem that

BOTH conducted righteous crusades....

now we know how bush* has been practicing and practicing his little speech for today....and it should surprise no-one that in bush*'s continuous alcoholic/drug stupor...bush* really imagines himself as an Eisenhower, bush*'s imagines that his own BIG-STUPID-WAR and WWII are the same...and bush* dreams that Eisenhower was also sent by God to conduct the crusade of WWII....


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[snippy]

2. 'Bush has been careful to avoid the word "crusade." ' Not quite true.

It was used in a Bush fundraising letter in March of this year.

Bush Campaign Refuses to Explain Fundraising Letter Citing Bush as “Leading a Global Crusade Against Terrorism”. The Bush campaign refused to answer questions about why Bush Campaign Chair Racicot described Bush as “leading a global crusade against terrorism” in a recent fundraising letter. (Bush/Cheney Fundraising Letter by Mark Racicot, 3/3/04)

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0417.html

[struggle4progress]

3. It seems he really does think of it as a crusade ...

but can't admit that anymore in public forums. What a snake!

[AlCzervik]

4. I bet you won't hear

the smirking asshole recite Ike's Iron Triangle speech.

[0007]

5. Your absolutely right on the "Iron Triangle Speech"

"Central to the issue of iron triangles is the assumption that bureaucratic agencies, as players in the political game, seek to create and consolidate their own power base.

The idea is that an agency's power is determined by its constituency, not by its consumers In economics, consumers are individuals or households that "consume" goods and services generated within the economy. Since this includes just about everyone, the term is a political term as much as an economic term when it is used in everyday speech.

Typically when businesspeople and economists talk of "consumers" they are talking about person-as-consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed in the buy/not buy decision. However there is a trend in marketing to individualize the concept. Instead of generating broad demographic and psychographic profiles of market segments, marketers are engaging in personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization.

..... Click the link for more information. .

For these purposes, constituency may be defined as a group of politically active members sharing a common interest or goal; consumers are the expected recipients of goods or services provided by government bureaucracies (often identified in an agency's written goals or mission statement)."

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Iron%20triangle

[BayCityProgressive]

6. it's disgusting

that he even quoted Eisenhower. He was a better President than Bush could ever be.