| Well deserved blame isn't a game |
 Well deserved blame isn't a game | Sep. 14th, 2006 @ 11:50 am  |
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Read Cal Thomas' amusing article 'Blame game won't win war'.
Cal suggests there is enough red meat to support conclusions that Presidents Bush and Clinton not only perpetrated massive disservices to this country but their behavior was criminally negligent. We are prompted by Cal to make a selection, Clinton or Bush, which one screwed the country. I realize that they both may have failed their most principle roles as Presidents, but as for which argument I find the most credible I think I'll have to pick the report by the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence {which was more damning to Bush} over the conspiracy depicted in an ABC docu-drama {which was more damning to Clinton}. I don't know about Cal, but I tend to put a little more confidence in official government reports than docu-dramas on primetime television. Of course I also don't believe in the Biblical creation story as fact, nor that an embryonic stem-cell is a human being so...
As for this FDR conspiracy theory. If what Robert Stinnett alleges and Cal seemingly endorses is actually true then that would make FDR responsible for the most treacherous act in American Presidential history. Second only perhaps to, if another conspiracy theory is correct, Bush having foreknowledge of 9/11 and deliberately not preventing it. I don't like how matter-of-fact this notion is being presented here but if it as so apparent as alleged, then it needs to be given major media coverage, we need to make this knowledge available to the general public, it needs to be taught in schools, and FDR should be officially labeled the worst traitor in American history.
The fact that none of this has happened, in fact I've never heard anyone debate or suggest this theory of treachery says to me that the evidence Mr. Stinnett has gathered and Cal has passed on as if it is just one of those inconvenient little truths about government, is not only weak but most accurately little more than a pile of anti-Democrat conspiracy theory bullshit.
Regardless how fictional this claim is, the important point here is that we shouldn't keep silent when our leaders are criminally negligent. War or no war. That holds true whether we're talking about a Democrat like FDR or Clinton, or a Republican like Bush.
In closing Cal tries, in vain, to get us to take the heat off his pal Bush suggesting that, "We can't afford to play the blame game now that we are in these wars."
I beg to differ. We most certainly can. See we didn't just stumble into these wars or have them thrust upon us. One of those wars, Iraq, was the brainchild of Bush & Co. There are many of us who vehemently opposed going into that war, and there is no doubt who is responsible for sending us into it so we can most certainly "play the blame game". And not only for going to war unjustly in Iraq, but for the disastrous way it has been waged since then.
I think Cal hurt the case for Bush far more than he helped it. Though he tends to hurt the Neoconservative/Christian Fundamentalist agenda every time he opens his mouth.
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