for the way you jumped on the RW bandwagon, trashing Clinton and Gore.
Washington's Do-Nothing Patriots
They save the flag; everything else is on a back burner.His response to the fresh wave of carnage in Iraq was to take to the airwaves Tuesday night in a PR effort designed, White House senior advisor Dan Bartlett said, to "educate the American people" about "our strategy for victory." How about educating the president?
The soldiers at Ft. Bragg know better. They know Americans were not greeted as liberators in Iraq, and the rosy, unfounded assumptions that they would be created the catastrophe now killing their buddies.
If Bush had given that same myopic speech before Congress, there would have been at least 10 standing ovations, led by armchair patriots waving the flag.
Congress is proof of Samuel Johnson's adage that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. Look at one of the flag amendment's loudest and proudest cosponsors, Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
The Republican congressman from San Diego is under FBI scrutiny for a questionable real estate deal with a defense contractor, in which he made $700,000. "Ask the men and women who stood on top of the
Trade Center," Cunningham said. "Ask them and they will tell you: Pass this amendment."
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