Bush put his "accountability moment" behind him.

[sunnystarr]

I was just floored when I read this in a transcript of a WP interview with Bush.

The Post: In Iraq, there's been a steady stream of surprises. We weren't welcomed as liberators, as Vice President Cheney had talked about. We haven't found the weapons of mass destruction as predicted. The postwar process hasn't gone as well as some had hoped. Why hasn't anyone been held accountable, either through firings or demotions, for what some people see as mistakes or misjudgments?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, we had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 election. And the American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me, for which I'm grateful.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12570-2005Jan15.html

[papau]

1. It is copied from what Nixon said in 72 about Watergate after his win

Not that I am saying the Bush is the equal of Nixon in evil -

He is worse.

[fryguy]

2. read krugman's take on *'s "magic moment"

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/opinion/18krugman.html

Last week President Bush declared that the election was the "accountability moment" for the war in Iraq - the voters saw it his way, and that's that. But Mr. Bush didn't level with the voters during the campaign and doesn't deserve anyone's future trust.

I won't belabor the W.M.D. issue, except to point out that the Bush administration, without exactly lying, managed to keep most voters confused. According to a Pew poll, on the eve of the election the great majority of voters, of both parties, believed that the Bush administration had asserted that it found either W.M.D. or an active W.M.D. program in Iraq.

Mr. Bush also systematically misrepresented how the war was going. Remember last September when Ayad Allawi came to Washington? Mr. Allawi, acting as a de facto member of the Bush campaign - a former official close to the campaign suggested phrases and helped him rehearse his speech to Congress - declared that 14 or 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces were "completely safe," and that the interim government had 100,000 trained troops. None of it was true.

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[txaslftist]

3. Listen to Hannity and Limbaugh...

and you'll learn that the Iraqis DID have WMDs that they shipped to Syria.

The world IS flat, by the way.

[fryguy]

5. so we're about to invade syria?

i thought our next diversionary war of choice was going to be against iran....at least that's what the NY Post's headline was the other day

[txaslftist]

6. Why not?

Syria is in the Middle East, isn't it?

We can invade them on the way to Iran from Afghanistan.

[fryguy]

7. afghanistan to iran via syria?

consult a map

[txaslftist]

10. A Map? We don't need no stinking maps...

Consult scripture, instead. We'll just pass through the 'reed sea' on the way to Smyrna, Ephesus and Damascas.

[fryguy]

11. ROFL n/t

[Contrary1]

9. The last paragraph from the linked article:

"...One is that we're not talking about secret intelligence; the media, if they do their job, can check out the numbers and see that they don't match what Mr. Bush is saying."

Let's do our job, DU. That being to make the media do theirs.

[SnoopDog]

4. I wrote a thread on this

If you care to read other thoughts - go here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x287778

[Inland]

8. Ha, ha, statute of limitations has run. Those moments are short, huh!