The day before the election, Bush said this:
"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses," Bush told a raucous crowd of about 5,000 GOP partisans packed in an arena at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, one of his stops Monday.
So - obviously the Democrats are all anti-American, in fact they don't even seem to be American. I'm so very happy that this rhetoric of fear is no longer working with the American people. What a ridiculous statement.
Bush talked a lot at the time of his last election about how the people had given him a mandate concerning Iraq (even though he just barely won). I wonder if after this landslide shift that reflects public opinion concerning his administration - I wonder if he will take that as a mandate to change his policies in Iraq.
What do ya'll think? We gonna hear Bush say - "Well obviously the people of the country want us to get out of Iraq - so that's what I'm going to do. I've been given a mandate!"
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Good call on the rhetoric of fear. The biggest problem I have with the war is the way the Bush administration sold it. Rather than explaining their position, complexity and all, they went for the easy fearmongering approach. In that respect, Bush and the GOP deserve every bit of this backlash.
Hear. Hear.
Regardless of whether or not we should be in Iraq - fear tactics should not be used to convince people. (Though of course both sides constantly use such fear tactics)
I'm wondering if your use of the word "y'all" is part of some rhetoric of fear. Cause I'm scared.
i aint skeered of a y'all. It's the all y'all you gotta watch out for.
Hows this for rhetoric or something. so, to protect Americans from being killed by terrorists, we send some americans somewhere else to be killed and kill abunch of other people while were there. 6 here, half a dozen(million) there.
i thought of this the other day and thought i was interesting. (not a typo)
October was found to be the deadliest month for civilians since we invaded in march 2003. according to the U.N. 3709 died. tragic without a doubt,but multiply this number by the 43 months that we've been there and you will get just shy of 160,000 which is roughly 1/4 of 600,000. can you say fog of war?
ONLY 160,000 civilians... thank Bush!
That's roughly 440,000 lives saved!!!
Janae.
Just pointing out the inaccurate count used to inflame emotions but hey I can appreciate your deeply rooted sense of sarcasm.
Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves
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Since the Saddam Hussein regime was overthrown in May, 270 mass graves have been reported. By mid-January, 2004, the number of confirmed sites climbed to fifty-three. Some graves hold a few dozen bodies—their arms lashed together and the bullet holes in the backs of skulls testimony to their execution. Other graves go on for hundreds of meters, densely packed with thousands of bodies.
"We've already discovered just so far the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair on November 20 in London. The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein's regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. "Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been 'disappeared' by the Iraqi government over the past two decades," said the group in a statement in May. "Many of these 'disappeared' are those whose remains are now being unearthed in mass graves all over Iraq."
If these numbers prove accurate, they represent a crime against humanity surpassed only by the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s, and the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.
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