Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts in Speech

[seemslikeadream]

By CALVIN WOODWARD
The Associated Press

NEW YORK - President Bush glossed over some complicating realities in Iraq, Afghanistan and the home front in arguing the case Americans are safer and his opponent cannot deliver.

On Iraq, Bush talked of a 30-member alliance standing shoulder to shoulder with the United States, masking the fact that U.S. troops are pulling by far most of the weight. On Afghanistan and its neighbors, he gave an accounting of captured or killed terrorists, but did not address the replenishment of their ranks - or the still-missing Osama bin Laden.

Bush's acceptance speech Thursday night conveyed facts that told only part of the story, hardly unusual for this most political of occasions.

He took some license in telling Americans that Democratic opponent John Kerry "is running on a platform of increasing taxes."

Kerry would, in fact, raise taxes on the richest Americans but as part of a plan to keep the Bush tax cuts for everyone else and even cut some of them more. That's not a tax-increase platform any more than Bush's plan for private retirement accounts is a platform to reduce Social Security benefits.

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http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/32-09032004-359710.html

[cthrumatrix]

1. he's a simple puppet.... more lies to keep track of for him

[underpants]

2. What's funny and sad is that that article could have bee written BEFORE

the speech. Nothing new to see here move along.

[Robb]

3. indeed

It's a little startling to see the press begin to call the guy on it, though. The bullet on this is "Bush lies":

glossed over
masking the fact
did not address
told only part of the story
took some license

Amazing, actually.

[democracy eh]

4. "Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts"

something tells me that is the story of his life

[fishface]

5. The village idiot don't do "complex"...nt

[emad]

6. Like the fact that he has a 40yr old son living in the UK under the

identity of "Witold Brzeski" living in Bognor Regis, West Sussex along with his Russian-born wife Irina....and has a lengthy career in fraud, blackmail, racketeering, property theft, money laundering etc and has been under protected ID since 1968 under US/UK delas struck by reciprocal military intelligence deals, uphepd by Thatcher in 1982 in a quid-pro-quo agreement at the time of the Falklands war....

[chromotone]

7. Did he attempt to explain "sovereignty" again...?

Q Good morning. My name is Mark Trahant. I'm the editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a member of the Native American Journalist Association. (Applause.) Most school kids learn about the government in the context of city, county, state and federal. And, of course, tribal governments are not part of that at all. Mr. President, you've been a governor and a President, so you have a unique experience, looking at it from two directions. What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st century, and how do we resolve conflicts between tribes and the federal and the state governments?

THE PRESIDENT: Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040806-1.html

[seemslikeadream]

8. Sounds like my answer

on a 6th grade spelling test. How I hated definitions. Wasn't enough to know how to spell the damn thing!

[chromotone]

9. Yeah, I know what you mean...

When I was in the 1st or 2nd grade, my teacher put me on the spot one day. She had written the words "import" and "export" on the blackboard, and asked for definitions. But before she took an answer, she looked at me at said (in front of class), "Chromotone*, you probably already know these definitions" since she knew my stepfather worked for a shipping line based in the San Pedro/Wilmington area of So.California. I thought "Thanks a lot, teach!" Not only did I not know the answer, I was made to look foolish since I was supposed to know the answer. I sensed a dramatic decline in respect among my peers that morning.

And I've hated Republicans ever since!** :grr:

______
*Not my real name.

[Moderator]

10. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=797994&mesg_id=797994