Bush's moral cowardice has guided him all along ;Josh Marshall

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Bush’s National Guard years
His moral cowardice has guided him all along :By Josh Marshall

http://www.hillnews.com/marshall/090904.aspx

Moral cowardice is more complex. A moral coward is someone who lacks the courage to tell the truth, to accept responsibility, to demand accountability, to do what’s right when it’s not the easy thing to do, to clean up his or her own messes. Perhaps we could say that moral bravery is having both the courage of your convictions as well as the courage of your misdeeds.


Once we were in Iraq and it was clear that we had been wrong about the weapons of mass destruction — a judgment that’s been clear for more than a year — the president refused to admit it. And he still hasn’t. A year and a half after we invaded Iraq and he still can’t level with the American people about this simple and now obvious reality. He still relies on his vice president to try to fool people into thinking Saddam Hussein was tied to al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks.

More important, once it became clear that the president’s plans for postwar Iraq were producing poor results, he refused to shift policy or to reshuffle his team. He refused to demand accountability from his own team because of how it would have reflected on him. He has preferred to continue on with demonstrably failed policies because to do otherwise would be to admit he’d made a mistake and open himself up to all the political fallout that would entail. That was something he wasn’t willing to do.


The same sort of moral cowardice that led him to support the Vietnam War but decide it wasn’t for him, run companies into the ground and let others pay the bill, play gutter politics but run for the hills when someone asked him to say it to their face — those are the same qualities that led the president to lie the country into war, to fail to prepare for the aftermath and then to refuse to take responsibility for any of it when the bill started to come due.

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1. Without question this is a very good read.

"King" George needs to re-read history. He does not have God's right to rule. Time Congress also did their job.No more wars

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2. Remember EQ?

Emotional Quotient as opposed to Intelligence. Bush is emotionally very immature.

This is a right on article.

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3. Congress do their jobs?

Most of them are too busy trying to get re-elected to do their jobs.
They hold these commitee hearings where there a lot of BS but don't do anything afterwards about the problems. Hell, they don't even defend the US Constitution. Both Repubs and Dems just go along with what the prevailing wind suggests will get them to keep their jobs.