Robert Scheer: Credit Kerry With Speaking Truth; Bush Is Banking On a Lie

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Robert Scheer: Credit Kerry With Speaking Truth; Bush Is Banking On a Lie
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer24aug24.story
ROBERT SCHEER
Iraqi Olympic Soccer Players Kick the Stuffing Out of Bush's Fantasy
Robert Scheer

August 24, 2004

With just 70 days until election day, the race for the presidency has gone from bitter to outright poisonous: John Kerry is faulted in television ads by President Bush's moneyed allies for winning combat medals in a war that Bush avoided, then slammed by the same hypocrites for having the courage to criticize that war after his return as a wounded vet.

Meanwhile, Bush pretends to be above the fray, all the while parading as a war commander and boasting, bizarrely, about his mythical achievements in the invasion of Iraq. That war, like Vietnam, has been a costly disaster since its inception. In an eerie echo of previous presidents who knowingly lied us into the Vietnam horror, always affirming that victory was "just around the corner," Bush's latest campaign ads prematurely declare Afghanistan and Iraq as the world's newest democracies. According to the implicit logic of one ad, the proof can be found in the fact that they both sent teams to the Olympics.

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[Catfight]

1. Bush is despicable!

[Skittles]

2. yup

it's hard for the White House and its lapdog press to spin these soccer players as "insurgents".