Bush's Killer Iraq Talking Points
By Robert Parry
May 30, 2007
It’s an old military adage that bad intel can get soldiers killed, but it now turns out that false talking points may be even more lethal, a lesson that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney continue to teach the world as the death toll mounts in Iraq...................
But Bush’s Iraq War talking points – while appealing to some Americans and frightening some Democrats – remain a potpourri of cherry-picked intelligence, irrational arguments and outright lies.
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“As before in our history, Americans find ourselves under attack and underestimated,” Bush said. “Our enemies long for our retreat. They question our moral purpose. They doubt our strength of will. Yet even after five years of war, our finest citizens continue to answer our enemies with courage and confidence.”
For Bush and Cheney, their own triumph of the will has been their success in using tough-talking talking points to back down the Democrats in Washington.
But the tragedy on the ground in Iraq is that no matter how much “courage and confidence” American soldiers display – as their death toll rises toward 3,500 and the number of Iraqi dead soars into the hundreds of thousands – the soldiers find themselves fighting and dying for a war strategy that arguably is doing far more harm than good.
No talking point can change that painful reality.
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