SADDAM Copying BUSH's Talking Points? (Glenn Greenwald)

[kpete]

Glenn Greenwald

Saddam copying Bush's talking points?

There are a few Bush-loving sites which are vehemently denying that GOP commentators compared Bush opponents with bin Laden by "pointing out" that bin Laden's latest message "sounds like" Democrats. I am currently have a mini-debate with a couple of those blogs and their readers in the Comments sections to those posts (including the omnipresent Tom Maguire in the latter), where the Bush lovers are earnestly protesting that all they were doing was making an innocent factual observation that bin Laden's speech had a lot of points that are often made by Democrats.

See, pro-Bush commentators didn't mean anything bad at all by this comparison, and they certainly did not mean to imply -- where would anyone possibly ever get that idea? -- that Democrats are al Qaeda supporters. It's just that bin Laden sounds a lot like Democrats and all they're doing is pointing that out. What's the problem?

In that case, I'm sure they won't mind at all if it's pointed out that Saddam Hussein's defense theory at his war crimes trial in Baghdad sure does sound an awful lot like the Bush Administration's theories as to why they have the right to violate the law. As Stirling Newberry points out (h/t American Coprophagia):


Saddam Hussein's defense against his indictment by an ad hoc Iraqi tribunal is simply that has the head
of the state he had unlimited power to defend the state. That enemies of the state did not have legal
protection, and therefore he cannot be charged for what he did during that time.

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/01/saddam-copying-bushs-talking-points.html

[KittyWampus]

1. This isn't pure gold... it's platinum. A Diamond waiting for Democrats to

use to cut through the thick shackles that the GOP and their Mediawhore accomplises have enslaved our discourse with.

It should be repeated by elected Democrats loudly and often.

[elehhhhna]

2. Then there's Scottie's channeling of Bagdahd Bob :

"Things look swell! Things look great!"

[yknot]

3. Republicans are always jumping out of the gate with poorly thought out

talking points and memes that, ultimately, come back and bite them in the ass. Problem is, they are so uniform in their message and delivery that it usually works for them, no matter how ludicrous.