George W. Bush's Incompetence
by MoveOn.org team
President Bush and his surrogates in Congress have been trying to bully the American people into silence over his failed policies in Iraq and elsewhere. They're saying it's somehow unpatriotic and even dangerous to criticize the President during wartime.
After President Bush came to Capitol Hill for a pep rally before Republican members of Congress (where he refused to acknowledge any questions about Iraq), Congresswoman Pelosi said that his handling of the war in Iraq shows "an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience, in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers." [1]
House Majority leader Tom DeLay responded that "her words are putting American lives at risk," and that she has "a responsibility to the troops and to this nation to show unity in this time of war." [2]
In 1918, Theodore Roosevelt said, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Tom DeLay has it backwards. We've seen that unquestioning acceptance by too many in Congress and in the media can lead the country down a dangerous pathway. Let's support leaders like Nancy Pelosi who are willing to tell it like it is...
--Carrie, Joan, Noah, Peter, and Wes
The MoveOn.org Team
Friday, June 4th, 2004
President Bush and his surrogates in Congress have been trying to bully the American people into silence over his failed policies in Iraq and elsewhere. They're saying it's somehow unpatriotic and even dangerous to criticize the President during wartime.
After President Bush came to Capitol Hill for a pep rally before Republican members of Congress (where he refused to acknowledge any questions about Iraq), Congresswoman Pelosi said that his handling of the war in Iraq shows "an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience, in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers." [1]
House Majority leader Tom DeLay responded that "her words are putting American lives at risk," and that she has "a responsibility to the troops and to this nation to show unity in this time of war." [2]
In 1918, Theodore Roosevelt said, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Tom DeLay has it backwards. We've seen that unquestioning acceptance by too many in Congress and in the media can lead the country down a dangerous pathway. Let's support leaders like Nancy Pelosi who are willing to tell it like it is...
--Carrie, Joan, Noah, Peter, and Wes
The MoveOn.org Team
Friday, June 4th, 2004
posted by Rev. Rick Mitchell, PhD at 9:58 AM
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