What's the Difference?
Rothschild, Matthew
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild What's the Difference? In December, during an interview with Diane Sawyer, George W. Bush came up with a classic line that should haunt him in the history books—if...
...It ought to be a lot of fun, so I hope you'll join us...
...Asked about those elusive weapons of mass destruction, Bush said Saddam Hussein had weapons programs and then added, "So what's the difference...
...The leaders of the Bush Administration hyped the threat so they could drag the nation into a war they wanted for their own reasons: to "finish the job" that Bush's dad left incomplete...
...But O'Neill's acknowledgment that Bush was intent on overthrowing Saddam long before September 11 indicates how dishonest Bush has been...
...to control the oil of Iraq...
...When a President can fob these off as if they were meaningless, then we have slipped a long way down the slide toward undemocratic rule...
...Molly Ivins and Howard Zinn will be headlining our evening event, and during the day, we're going to have a conference...
...The staff will be around, and many of our contributing writers have agreed to participate, including: David Barsamian, Kate Clinton, Susan Douglas, Andrea Lewis, Fred McKissack, John Nichols, and Adolph Reed...
...Plus the great poet Martin Espada will be on hand in the evening to offer some of his work...
...And from former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, for that matter...
...soldiers have died for Bush's deceits, as of mid-January...
...to vanquish a foe of U.S...
...It's a little late for candor from the Secretary of State...
...These denials are simply not credible...
...In December, during an interview with Diane Sawyer, George W. Bush came up with a classic line that should haunt him in the history books—if not in the months ahead...
...The Progressive is ninety-five years old this year, and on May 8, we're going to celebrate here in Madison, Wisconsin...
...ally Israel...
...Bush has faced no consequences for his lies, distortions, and exaggerations about the alleged Iraqi threat...
...It now turns out Iraq did not possess such weapons, and Bush has called off the search party...
...Thousands of soldiers have been injured...
...Throughout the lead-up to the Iraq War, Bush and Dick Cheney and Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld made out as though Saddam had a huge stockpile of nasty weapons, and that these posed a "grave" and "gathering" and "urgent" threat to the United States...
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...What's more, Powell has finally come clean on another fraudulent claim...
...Some 500 U.S...
...Well, the difference is actually enormous...
...It's the distance between truth and falsehood, the gap between democratic rule and regal fiat...
...We're having a party, and you are invited...
...And Bush's war killed between 7,900 and 9,800 Iraqi civilians and wounded 20,000 more, according to iraqbodycount.net...
...I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection" between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, he said on January 8. Contrast that, as The New York Times did, with what Powell said at the United Nations last February: "Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with Al Qaeda...
...to flex American muscle...
...and to act on what the President considers his divinely inspired mission to rid the world of evil...
...Topics tentatively are: "The Iraq War and Bush's New Interventionism," "The New McCarthyism and John Ashcroft's Rampage," "Breaking the Mass Media Stranglehold," "Winning the Culture War," "Tricks of the Journalism Trade," and "The 2004 Election: What's a Progressive to Do...
Vol. 68 • February 2004 • No. 2
