'War president' Bush has always been soft on terror

[BeyondGeography]

His campaign says vote Republican or die - but he lets al-Qaida off the hook

Craig Unger
Saturday September 11, 2004
THE GUARDIAN

Where's George Orwell when we need him? Because we Americans need him. We desperately need him. Consider: in August 2001, immediately after reading a memo entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in US", President George Bush went bass fishing - and never called a meeting to discuss the issue.

A month later, on September 11, when he was told that the terrorists had attacked, Bush spent the next seven minutes reading a children's book, The Pet Goat, with a group of schoolchildren.

And when it comes to his own military service, recent revelations show that Bush got out of fighting in Vietnam thanks to his dad's political clout. Even then, Bush didn't fulfil his obligations to the National Guard.

Yet somehow the Bush-Cheney ticket is convincing Americans that only a Republican administration can handle national security. If John Kerry wins, Dick Cheney warned: "The danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating." The choice is simple: Vote Republican, or die. And voters are buying it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1302339,00.html

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1. Voters are buying it because most media is selling the crap to 'em 24/7.

The media is as UnAmerican as it gets. They have BECOME Pravda, repeating the administration line. with no concern over journalistic integrity. They are not reporters, they are repeaters.

[Dirk39]

2. How did Robert Kennedy win?

Kennedy used false information from former Nazis, Gladio and the Gehlen Group, about a Sowjet-thread and offended Nixon for being "soft on communism". The thread did never exist and was as fabricated as every lie, Bush has ever told, but Kennedy did win the election and not many questions were asked after the election.
Hello from Germany,
Dirk