Reality is Unraveling for Bush:

[GreenPartyVoter]

Even Negative Attacks on Kerry No Longer Seem to be Working

by Sidney Blumenthal

At the Pentagon, on June 10, while business in Washington had officially halted as the body of Ronald Reagan lay in state, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld convened an emergency meeting on the Abu Ghraib scandal, according to a reliable source privy to its proceedings. Rumsfeld began the extraordinary session by saying that certain documents needed to "get out" that would show that there was no policy approving of torture and that what had happened in Iraq and Afghanistan was aberrant.

The Senate armed services committee had been conducting hearings whose corrosive impact needed to be countered. Rumsfeld complained about "serial requests" for information from Congress. Yet he was even more upset by subpoenas of defense officials issued by the special prosecutor in the case of Valerie Plame. The Pentagon, Rumsfeld said, was nearly "at a stop" because of them. Rumsfeld admitted he was startled by the uproar over Abu Ghraib: "There are so many international organizations."

On June 22, the White House released documents on policy on torture, including a directive signed on February 7 2002 by Bush stating that he has "the authority under the constitution" to abrogate the Geneva conventions, that the Taliban and al-Qaida as non-signatories were not covered by them, and that consequently Bush "declines to exercise that authority at this time". Rumsfeld's damage control was simply one front in the expanding Bush administration war for credibility.

Vice-president Dick Cheney staged a preemptive strike last week by reiterating that Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida had a relationship and insinuating that they were in league. His intended target was the 9/11 commission, which is dangerously independent. Its Republican co-chairman, Thomas Kean, replied that there was "no credible evidence" that Saddam and al-Qaida had collaborated. Bush entered the battle, repeating that there was indeed a "relationship". Then the Democratic co-chairman of the commission, Lee Hamilton, explained that al-Qaida had in fact approached Saddam seeking his help, but that it had been rebuffed. The rejection was the relationship. But Bush and Cheney's affirmative assertions made it seem that the "relationship" was affirmative.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0624-07.htm

[Hoping4Change]

1. Reality isn't unraveling, Bushco's unraveling. Reality is

revealing itself.


Truth is being revealed.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. He looks worse and worse every day

There is no way that this man is competent enought to be the POTUS.

[narcjen]

3. Boosh ads are a joke

they seem to have hired comedians to wirte his ads. Really, I was expecting them to come up with something much more impressive given their deep ockets. The generic ads just come off as hollow and boring.

As it turns out, Dems have absolutely nothing to fear from them. I just have to laugh at how badly they were done. After exploiting the 9/11 footage in his early ads, it was just all downhill from there.

[Hoping4Change]

4. I think this shows how much they bought into to their

demented ideology. They had expected to have zillions of pictures of rose petals covering soldiers. They were totally caught off guard by the reality of war with its unpredictability. They weren't expecting disasterous consequesnces and possiblity of defeat.

[Miss Authoritiva]

5. Bush slamming Kerry as being a pessimist is really bizarre

given the chaos in Iraq (where the number of dead US soldiers may reach 1,000 by the election), the incredible deficit numbers, the bogus Medicare prescription benefit cards, and high oil prices.

That particular ad only makes you blink twice in astonishment: Don't vote for Mr. Grumpy Kerry. Vote for me, I'm a fun guy!