Speech reaction: say no more

as we all know, the nyt can and often does try to play the "fair and balance" bullshit game where truth is often the casualty... today's editorial, however, imho, says what needs to be said...

We did not expect Mr. Bush would apologize for the misinformation that helped lead us into this war, or for the catastrophic mistakes his team made in running the military operation. But we had hoped he would resist the temptation to raise the bloody flag of 9/11 over and over again to justify a war in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks. We had hoped that he would seize the moment to tell the nation how he will define victory, and to give Americans a specific sense of how he intends to reach that goal - beyond repeating the same wishful scenario that he has been describing since the invasion.

Sadly, Mr. Bush wasted his opportunity last night, giving a speech that only answered questions no one was asking.

"misinformation" is a choice of words i have trouble with... "deliberate misinformation" would be more accurate and "LYING" even more so... interesting as well, that they not only didn't bite on the repeated false allegation that iraq and al qaeda were connected, they simply asserted the truth - "a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks..."

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