Progressive Minds

If I had a moment with Bush, I think I'd ask him "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

He used his speech at West Point to compare himself to Harry Truman:

"As President Truman put it towards the end of his presidency, 'When history says that my term of office saw the beginning of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we set the course that can win it.' His leadership paved the way for subsequent presidents from both political parties — men like Eisenhower, Kennedy and Reagan — to confront and eventually defeat the Soviet threat."

"Today, at the start of a new century, we are again engaged in a war unlike any our nation has fought before, and like Americans in Truman's day, we are laying the foundations for victory."

Ok, explain this to me, Bushie. If we were truly "laying the foundations for victory" in this so-called war on terror, don't you think it would help if we were actually fighting the enemy---the Islamic extremists who attacked us on 9/11?

Don't you think it would have helped not to take our eye off the ball in Afghanistan?

How is it that Osama is still out there making audio tapes?

When you prove that you are doing all you can to capture Osama bin Laden, then come talk to me about laying the foundation for victory in this "war on terror."

Oh, one more thing, Bushie. It also might help our standing in the world, if you don't go around using your graduation speeches to threaten Iran: "This is only the beginning. The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future belongs to freedom, and we will not rest until the promise of liberty reaches every people in every nation."

Bush likens war on terrorism to Cold War