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February 17, 2005
CBS Nonsense
CBS News. Not biased. Not at all. Nevvvvver.
I stumbled upon this story of supposed Bush flipflops...too bad most of them I read thru are total nonsense. They point out Bush said we found bio weapons labs in Iraq (we did), then they say he flipflopped by saying we didn't find stockpiles of WMD. STOCKPILES- key word there, folks. We DID find wmd, but we didn't find STOCKPILES of WMD (yet)- anyone with reason knows he buried them in the sand like he did with the 30 or so russian MIGs the US military found, and some of it had to have been shipped off to state supporter of terrorism, Syria!
To the geniuses at CBS news- finding weapons but not finding STOCKPILES of weapons equals a flipfop. Absurd...
I will totally rip to shreds CBS' piece later...
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UPDATE:
I said I would refute CBS' nonsense, and here we go...just gonna take a few of these, because it's late.
CBS SAYS:
Nation Building and the War in Iraq
During the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush argued against nation building and foreign military entanglements. In the second presidential debate, he said: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's got to be.'"
The United States is currently involved in nation building in Iraq on a scale unseen since the years immediately following World War II.
During the 2000 election, Mr. Bush called for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the NATO peacekeeping mission in the Balkans. His administration now cites such missions as an example of how America must "stay the course."
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I SAY:
This is a ridiculous claim I am tired of hearing. The world changed after Sept 11, 2001. What Bush said about nation building and being against it in 2000 is to be ignored...considering that little terrorist attack. CBS remembers that day right? The people jumping from windows 100 stories up...innocent men and women being burned alive, airline passengers being turned into dust. CBS does recall all of these events, right? With the new world we live in, nation building is NOW important. To force brutal regimes out and replace them with governments who will no longer support terrorism, but do all they can to stop it.
CBS SAYS:
Iraq and the Sept. 11 Attacks
In a press conference in September 2002, six months before the invasion of Iraq, President Bush said, “you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror... they're both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.”
In September of 2004, Mr. Bush said: “We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September 11th." Though he added that “there's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties,” the statement seemingly belied earlier assertions that Saddam and al Qaeda were “equally bad.”
The Sept. 11 commission found there was no evidence Saddam was linked to the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
I SAY: This one doesn't even make sense. Bush said that Saddam is just as evil as al qaeda, and he also said that there is no evidence linking Saddam to the Sept 11 attacks. And? This is a flip flop? That makes absolutely NO sense at all, and I'm not even sure why they put this on here at al. Bush never said Saddam was responsible for 9/11- he merely said the thug was just as bad as the terrorists and just as danegrous...all things that are quite true!
As for the claim that the 9/11 commission found no evidence linking Hussein to the attacks, that is actually not true, because there are some links, and they have been backed up with a number of pieces of evidence, including international intel that shows 9/11 ringleader, Mohammed Attah met with Iraqi officials on at least 2 different occasions. If that's evidence of any sort of link, I don't know what is. So, CBS is wrong on both counts.
I'm still trying to figure out how saying that Saddam is just as bad as the terrorist as well as saying no evidence links him to 9/11 is a flip flop. Mind boggling...
CBS SAYS:Winning the War on Terror
"I don't think you can win it," Mr. Bush said of the war on terror in August. In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, he said, “I think you can create conditions so that . . . those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."
Before the month closed, Mr. Bush reversed himself at the American Legion national convention in Nashville. He said: "We meet today in a time of war for our country, a war we did not start yet one that we will win." He later added, “we are winning, and we will win."
I SAY: Another silly attempt to find a "flip flop" by Bush. He was merely saying that you cannot ultimately WIN the battle, because there will always be terrorism and terrorists out there who will act out in evil ways...BUT, in the end we will WIN in the sense that terrorism will not be a threat to the entire globe via WMD and the like. We will combat terrorism until it's isolated to a point where we no longer have to make it our #1 priority. This is clear, and it's nowhere near a flip flop. Does CBS play semantics games just to make sure they have a certain number of "flip flops" or is there some other reason for the nonsense?
I'll stop there...the others are just as easy to refute, and you can do it yourself in your free time. Make a game out of it...catch CBS News making absurd claims. Invite friends over to play along! From Dan Rather's bogus stories, to his love of the Clintons, to the wholly left-leaning analysis of the Iraq war, CBS would be wise to think before they post their next round of supposed flip-flops.
Posted by Josh at February 17, 2005 02:00 AM