Governor Schwarzenegger, praising Dubya’s steadfast leadership:
“The President didn’t go into Iraq because the polls told him it was popular. As a matter of fact, the polls said just the opposite. But leadership isn’t about polls. It’s about making decisions you think are right and then standing behind those decisions. That’s why America is safer with George W. Bush as President.”
Hmmm, I wonder if Repugnicans know about LexisNexis…
ABC News/Washington Post Poll. March 17, 2003
“Would you support or oppose the United States going to war with Iraq?”
Support – 71%
Oppose – 27%
No Opinion – 3%
CBS News Poll. March 15-16, 2003.
“Do you think the Bush Administration has presented enough evidence to show that military action against Iraq is necessary right now, or haven’t they done that yet?”
Has – 59%
Have Not – 39%
Don’t Know – 5%
Zogby International Poll. March 14-15, 2003
ABC News/Washington Post Poll. March 20, 2003
“As you may know, the United States went to war with Iraq last night. Do you support or oppose the United States having gone to war with Iraq?”
Support – 72%
Oppose – 26%
No Opinion – 2%
George W. Bush: Bravely going into Iraq even though the polls showed it was popular.
Former Mayor Guiliani, recalling his reaction to watching a man jump from the 102nd floor of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01:
“Without really thinking, based on just emotion, spontaneous, I grabbed the arm of then Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and I said to him, ‘Bernie, thank God George Bush is our President.'”
Former Mayor Guiliani, recalling the same event back in April 2002:
“We never will be able to figure out every way we could be attacked or every disaster and how it will affect us. We have to try. I learned this before Sept. 11. The first point at which I realized this was a horrific emergency, more than what I had seen, was when a man jumped from 102 floor of one of the towers.
“I grabbed the police commissioner by the arm and said this is uncharted territory and we have to figure out our response. We started doing the things that we did and organized so we could have the generators come in to work 24 hours a day to save people and ultimately to recover people; recovery and relief. Where to relocate command, first at the police academy, and then at the pier.”
No report on whether Guiliani was thinking “thank God George Bush is our president” at the time. (See http://iwce-mrt.com/ar/radio_fromer_new_york/)
Senator John McCain, invoking the loudest response of the convention by turning into a film critic:
“Our choice wasn’t between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our political opponents, and certainly not, certainly not, a disingenuous film maker who would have us believe that Saddam’s Iraq was an oasis of peace, when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children inside their walls.”
But that night on “Hardball,” McCain admitted to Chris Matthews that he had not seen the film. If he had, he would have seen that the scene in question is a few seconds showing Iraqi children playing, women walking through a marketplace, and men at a coffeeshop, as George W. Bush gives his speech about going to war with Iraq. Does anyone think that these scenes were staged?
The cinematic point was that we were about to drop bombs on lots of innocent people. That Saddam Hussein was a ruthless dictator with torture rooms and mass graves is a given. But he hadn’t gotten around to torturing and killing everyone in Iraq yet, so many of these Iraqi people were just going about their daily business.
Indescribable cruelty? What do you call bombing a wedding party?
Torture chambers? What do you call Abu Ghraib?
Mass graves? What do you call 12,000 Iraqi casualties?
Prisons that destroyed the lives of small children? See above.
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