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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:36 PM
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Krugman lays it out PERFECTLY - Bush must be held accountable
Edited on Fri Jun-24-05 12:37 PM by fryguy
Bravo Paul. You make me proud!


The War President

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/opinion/24krugman.html

Leading the nation wrongfully into war strikes at the heart of democracy. It would have been an unprecedented abuse of power even if the war hadn't turned into a military and moral quagmire. And we won't be able to get out of that quagmire until we face up to the reality of how we got in.

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Still, some of my colleagues insist that we should let bygones be bygones. The question, they say, is what we do now. But they're wrong: it's crucial that those responsible for the war be held to account.

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Major media organizations still act as if only a small, left-wing fringe believes that we were misled into war, but that "fringe" now comprises much if not most of the population.

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pie Donating Member (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:41 PM
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Excellent!
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natrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 12:41 PM
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1. yea but these media conglomerates are making billions
so we should jstfu
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Alizaryn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:00 PM
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2. He says in this one line what others have spent pages saying ..
"And he kept the nation focused on martial matters by morphing the pursuit of Al Qaeda into a war against Saddam Hussein."
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:06 PM
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3. Exactly. How long do we have to scream for accountability?
Geez...I've been screaming for years now!

peace.
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 01:30 PM
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4. not to mention this line

"the people who led us to war on false pretenses have no credibility, and no right to lecture the rest of us about patriotism."
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