Bush has no respect for the troops, his generals, the American public or the truth

maybe i'm naive or terminally disingenuous, but i continue to be astounded that our media, given all that's out there about the horrors that have been and continue to be perpetrated by the most criminal administration in the nation's history, are still giving bush a free ride... they don't include context in their stories, they don't point out glaring hypocrisies, and they don't call foul on outright lies... moyers' documentary was a masterpiece of pointing out the media complicity in the lead-up to the illegal iraq war... the sad truth is that it's never stopped...

Bush has never stopped making statements about the Iraq War that are untrue, illogical or irrelevant. Yet, the Washington press corps remains almost as lax today about holding Bush accountable as it was in 2002 and 2003.

So, when Bush mocks Democratic “politicians in Washington” who supposedly seek to substitute their judgments for those of experienced commanders on the ground, the national news media stays silent on Bush’s hypocrisy. It’s almost never mentioned that he was the Washington politician in December who overruled the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the two top generals in Iraq on the escalation of the war.

Bush not only rejected the advice of the Joint Chiefs and his field generals, John Abizaid and George Casey, but then replaced Abizaid and Casey with new commanders who were compliant to Bush’s wishes. Though the removals fell within Bush’s Commander-in-Chief powers, it can’t be said he was respecting the judgments of the combat generals.

the most obvious hypocrisy to me is bush's claim to support the troops while displaying a completely cavalier disregard for their welfare by mandating multiple tours, failing to provide proper equipment, sending the wounded and disabled back into combat, shorting them on health care and rehabilitation, and damaging or destroying the families they left behind... the man is a disgrace as both a president and a human being...

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