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Posted by crazycanuck on :

America's bitch of a president flips more than a fish out of water, and its with important things like intelligence and preventing another terrorist attack!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040913/ap_on_el_pr/flipping_and_flopping&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

some highlights...

In 2000, Bush argued against new military entanglements and nation building. He's done both in Iraq.

_He opposed a Homeland Security Department, then embraced it.

_He opposed creation of an independent Sept. 11 commission, then supported it. He first refused to speak to its members, then agreed only if Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) came with him.

_Bush argued for free trade, then imposed three-year tariffs on steel imports in 2002, only to withdraw them after 21 months.

_Last month, he said he doubted the war on terror could be won, then reversed himself to say it could and would.

_A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) "dead or alive." But he told reporters six months later, "I truly am not that concerned about him." He did not mention bin Laden in his hour-long convention acceptance speech.

"I'm a war president," Bush told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Feb. 8. But in a July 20 speech in Iowa, he said: "Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president."

Bush keeps revising his Iraq war rationale: The need to seize Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction until none were found; liberating the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator; fighting terrorists in Iraq not at home; spreading democracy throughout the Middle East. Now it's a safer America and a safer world.

The truth is a bitter pill to swallow.

- KEvin

Posted by DuncanIdaho on :

welcome to politics Kevin. There is plenty of that in Canada too. Chretien and Mulroney were both anti-Nafta but somehow that got signed. Chretien was anti-GST but I think you still have to pay it. When it comes to politics this stuff is a reality for everyone on all sides. imho

Posted by crazycanuck on :

yeah thats definetly true, but Bush is using it as an argument against Kerry, people in glass houses should not throw rocks

- Kevin

Posted by Gordon Bennett on :

Ah, nostalgia.

Posted by DWE on :

A "flip-flopper" would be John Kerry, PERIOD!