Video clip: Bush's Nation Building statement (2000)

[liveoaktx]

Nation Building

Origin- a program about rationally looking at the origins of Iraq War on FSTV

[nini]

1. I remember him saying that..

How do the repukes rebuke this one?

[liveoaktx]

2. What gets me is not just that he said it but his demeanor

the whole "How utterly ridiculous the whole idea of nation-building is, so foreign to how I think". I don't know if Gore somehow brought this up or it was a straw man argument using his familiar body language to debunk the entire idea.

I see this as a giant flip flop and not dismissed with "after 911, everything changed". If one accepts that others (Kerry) change their minds about an issue over time, and calls that a flip flop, this is too. But this one costs lives for a bogus war.

[nini]

4. we're 'defending' against terror - don't you know?

:evilgrin:

they can justify EVERYTHING by saying it's part of the war on terror.

Govern by fear is their policy.

[killbotfactory]

3. Yeah, but they didn't capture the part where he mumbled...

"unless it proves profitable for my friends, family, and political donors".