BUSH MISLEADS ON CONNECTION TO SMEAR CAMPAIGN
The Daily Mislead
George
W. Bush has adamantly denied any connection to discredited and
unsubstantial attack ads, run by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth (SBVT), a group that aims to smear John Kerry's record of
honorable military service. On Friday, White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan said that the White House and the Bush/Cheney campaign
"weren't involved in any way in these [SBVT] ads."[1]
McClellan
neglected to mention that Kenneth Cordier, who appears prominently in
the SBVT ads, was a member of the Bush/Cheney veterans steering
committee.[2] According to the campaign website, members of the
veterans steering committee "serve as messengers for the pResident's
re-[selection] campaign."[3] After the Kerry campaign exposed Cordier's
involvement, a spokesman for Bush, Steve Schmidt, announced Cordier
would "no longer participate" in the campaign.[4] According to Schmidt,
the campaign had no idea that Cordier was involved in the SBVT ads -
which have been a major issue in the campaign for weeks and replayed
repeatedly on national television.
Also
skipped over by McClellan: The primary financial backer of the SBVT is
Bob Perry - the top donor to Republicans in the state of Texas.[5]
Perry has also been a friend of Karl Rove, Bush's top political
advisor, for nearly 20 years.[6] Perry ponied up $46,000 for Bush's
gubernatorial campaigns and contributed generously to Bush's
presidential races.[7]
Sources:
1. "Press Gaggle by Scott McClellan," The White House, 08/20/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51520.
2. "Bush
Campaign Drops Swift Boat Ad Figure," The Washington Post, 8/22/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51521.
3. "U.S.
Rep. Jim Gibbons Announces Nevada Veterans for Bush Leadership Team,"
GeorgeWBush.com, 8/20/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51522.
4. "Bush
Campaign Drops Swift Boat Ad Figure," Washington Post, 8/22/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51521.
5. "Ad
Wars: Behind an Attack on Kerry," International Herald Tribune,
8/20/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51523.
6. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51523.
7. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51523.
Visit www.Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion.
And speaking of Bush misleading, this biting humor is from the Woodbury County Democratic Party website:
"Bush
the younger has two things going for him that his father never had:
one, an easy charm with regular people and two, the power to make them
disappear without a trial."
--Bill Maher
"Is
it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week,
Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas;
Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he
never followed John Kerry was Vietnam."
--Jay Leno
"Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'"
--Craig Kilborn
"This week the Bush campaign
unveiled its new slogan. The new slogan is 'We've Turned A Corner And
We're Not Turning Back.' This replaces their old slogan 'Do What Dick
Cheney Says And Nobody Gets Hurt.'"
-—Conan O'Brien
"The L.A. Times reports that al
Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and Bush is talking tough.
In fact, he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval
rating is under 45 percent."
-—Jay Leno
"A lot of people are wondering if
these terror threats are politically motivated and today Tom Ridge said
in a press conference: We don't do politics in the Department of
Homeland Security. Our job is to identify the threat and then assign it
a pretty little color to go with it."
-—Jay Leno
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Monday, August 23
BUSH MISLEADS ON CONNECTION TO SMEAR CAMPAIGN
by
Linda Thieman
on Mon 23 Aug 2004 04:03 PM CDT
And A Big Thumbs Up to Steve King, in an Iraqi Sort of Way, That Is
by
Linda Thieman
on Mon 23 Aug 2004 11:28 AM CDT
And A Big Thumbs Up to Steve King, in an Iraqi Sort of Way, That Is
IDP website That shameful, party-line-voting neo-con Steve King, a cultural misunderstanding, and more embarrassment During his stump speech at the Iowa State Fair [last] week, Congressman Steve King [IA-5th district] said he believes the Iraqi people are very supportive of American involvement in Iraq. King said he knows this because while he was visiting the country this summer, he was given an enthusiastic “thumbs up” by the Iraqi people. King said that while he was traveling in a military convoy in Iraq, he gave a friendly wave to the Iraqis who lined the streets, watching the convoy pass. King said that many of the men responded by giving him a “thumbs up.” King said at the fair that those thumbs up prove that the Iraqis support America efforts in their country. King said he even has a videotape that records these thumbs up. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Gordon Fischer said, “Perhaps Congressman King should review his own video again. In Iraq, a thumbs up isn’t a gesture of support. It’s a nasty insult.” According to Roger E. Axtell's book Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World, a “'thumbs up' traditionally translates as the foulest of Iraqi insults. A gentle translation would be '-- y--rs, pal!'" “While King's misinterpretation is amusing, the gestures of a few people on the street aren’t the issue, and neither are the ramblings of Iowa’s most misguided congressman,” Fischer said. “What is important is that we have dedicated men and women in harm’s way in a dangerous part of the world, and an occupied foreign land in turmoil. We have a pResident who went to war without a plan to finish the job, and an Iowa Congressman who is so far off target and misinformed that it is difficult to take seriously anything he says about these important issues.” “Iowans in the 5th District deserve better representation in Congress than are getting from Steve King. Joyce Schulte is an intelligent, informed and passionate candidate. She will be far more representative of Western Iowa than Steve King could ever hope to be.” Source
Connie Wilson: The Fog of War, Part 2
by
Linda Thieman
on Mon 23 Aug 2004 05:56 AM CDT
The Fog of War, Part 2
By Connie Corcoran Wilson Picking up from the first installment, last week: But the President from Texas (LBJ), after John Kennedy’s assassination, said, “You can have more war or more appeasement. I always thought it was bad to make any statements about withdrawing,” remembering that, when McNamara and Kennedy had discussed such conciliatory actions, in previous cabinet meetings where he had been present, he did not agree, but remained silent. Now, with LBJ in the driver’s seat, the new President pushes through the Tonkien Gulf Resolution, which gives complete authority to one man, the President, to take the nation to war. McNamara relates how, on August 2, 1964, the destroyer Maddox was attacked in international waters by North Vietnamese patrol boats. “We didn’t respond,” he says. Two days later, on August 4, 1964, skittish sonar operators reported 9 torpedoes fired at the Maddox at 12:22 p.m. and, again, 97 minutes later, reported additional attacks, as charted by sonar. Years later, says McNamara, it emerged that, “Our judgment that we had been attacked that day (on Aug. 4, 1964) was wrong. We hadn’t been,” quickly adding that it was true on August 2, however. From this poor judgment regarding the August 4th attacks emerged stepped-up bombing raids on North Viet Nam. Says McNamara, “We were wrong, but we had in our mind a mindset that led to that action. And it led to such heavy costs,” agreeing with the narrator that “we see what we want to believe.” All this ancient history sounds so current, and makes the saying, (roughly paraphrased) “If we do not study history and learn from it, we are condemned to repeat it,” seem very timely, indeed. McNamara related a heated conversation with the man who had once been President of North Vietnam, which occurred many years after the conflict: “We (the North Vietnamese) were fighting for our independence. You were fighting to enslave us.” That was the viewpoint of the North Vietnamese: that the United States was attempting to follow in France’s footsteps as a colonial power. The North Vietnamese leader insisted to McNamara, “We weren’t the pawns of the Chinese or the Russians,” (a popular opinion of the day, expressed often as “the domino theory” of Communism in that part of the world) saying that his men were fighting to be independent as a nation, and that they “would have fought to the last man”, since they viewed the conflict entirely differently than we (the United States) did. (McNamara’s Point #1). more » |
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