Thursday, June 30, 2005
Bush demands exit strategy and timetable
In 1999, George W. Bush criticized President Clinton for not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo, and yet he refuses to apply the same standard to his war.
George W. Bush, 4/9/99: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”
And on the specific need for a timetable, here’s what Bush said then and what he says now:
George W. Bush, 6/5/99 http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:oPFweZNdwrQJ:vyas.com/story.jsp%3Fportal_id%3D1%26news_keyword%3DYellowBrix%2BTop%2BHeadlines%26index%3D2+Bush+said+Thursday.+%22I+think+it%27s+also+important+for+the+president+to+lay+out+a+timetable&hl=en&start=1
“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
[ed. note: article originally ran in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on 6/5/99]
VERSUS
George W. Bush, 6/24/05:
“It doesn’t make any sense to have a timetable. You know, if you give a timetable, you’re — you’re conceding too much to the enemy.”
George W. Bush, 4/9/99: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”
And on the specific need for a timetable, here’s what Bush said then and what he says now:
George W. Bush, 6/5/99 http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:oPFweZNdwrQJ:vyas.com/story.jsp%3Fportal_id%3D1%26news_keyword%3DYellowBrix%2BTop%2BHeadlines%26index%3D2+Bush+said+Thursday.+%22I+think+it%27s+also+important+for+the+president+to+lay+out+a+timetable&hl=en&start=1
“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
[ed. note: article originally ran in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on 6/5/99]
VERSUS
George W. Bush, 6/24/05:
“It doesn’t make any sense to have a timetable. You know, if you give a timetable, you’re — you’re conceding too much to the enemy.”
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"Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
“Oh, the times! Oh, the manners!”
“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”
“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
“No sane man will dance.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman who lived and died fifty years before the birth of Christ
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
“Oh, the times! Oh, the manners!”
“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”
“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
“No sane man will dance.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman who lived and died fifty years before the birth of Christ
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Teddy Roosevelt:
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
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