From a war president to a not-winning-a-war president
06/23/05
The political makeover of Mr. Bush from the 'accidental president' -- after all, he had failed to win the support of the majority of voters in 2000 -- to a War President reflected the successful way in which he and his aides exploited the wave of post-9/11 American nationalism triggered by the images of death and destruction in New York and Washington, by creating the perception that Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were somewhat linked together. ... Now, it seems that the chickens are coming home to roost and that the war on terrorism that had helped to elevate Mr. Bush into a War President is now turning him into a Not-Winning-War President. The devastating images of 9/11 have become a distant memory and have been replaced by the daily bloody pictures of the war in Iraq that keeps dragging on and on, without any indication that the United States and its allies are close to winning it...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar18.html
from LewRockwell.Com, by Leon Hadar
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The political makeover of Mr. Bush from the 'accidental president' -- after all, he had failed to win the support of the majority of voters in 2000 -- to a War President reflected the successful way in which he and his aides exploited the wave of post-9/11 American nationalism triggered by the images of death and destruction in New York and Washington, by creating the perception that Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were somewhat linked together. ... Now, it seems that the chickens are coming home to roost and that the war on terrorism that had helped to elevate Mr. Bush into a War President is now turning him into a Not-Winning-War President. The devastating images of 9/11 have become a distant memory and have been replaced by the daily bloody pictures of the war in Iraq that keeps dragging on and on, without any indication that the United States and its allies are close to winning it...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar18.html
from LewRockwell.Com, by Leon Hadar
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Jun, 10:24
