Well, yes, the LNS Editor-in-Chief still considers
himself a New Yorker, even though he has lived on the
Left Coast for 25 years...New Yorkers are experts at
"smelling a rat." The sewers are full of
them...Hundreds of thousands of America's SILENCED
MAJORITY marched in the streets of NYC on Sunday,
drawing a magical circle of protest around the Brown
Shirt rally at Madison for-once-truly-SQUARE
Garden...LNS Foreign Correspondent Dunston Woods has
verified the turn-out from his Pacific Rim post, here
at home, of course, the "US mainstream news media" is
incapable of counting above "tens of thousands." There
are two boons to the OBSCENITY that is the 2004 RNC,
it provides a chilling glimpse further down the
alternate timeline for those who might be toying with
the notion of throwing their vote away on the
shell-of-a-man-formerly-known-as-Ralph-Nader, AND it
should bring the Bush abomination's pre-9/11
negligence and post-9/11 incompetence into sharp
focus, i.e. with Bush-Cheney lathering themselves in
the blood and ash of 9/11 this week, how could any
reasonable person fault Sen. John Edwards (D-NC)
and/or Gen. Wesley Clark (D-NATO) for doing what the
LNS Recently suggested -- pulling out the 9/11
Commission Report on the stump, and reading from it to
throngs and to the reporters *covering* the campaign.
The 9/11 Commission Report, as weak-kneed as it is,
still contains enough DAMNING evidence to consigh the
increasingly unhinged and incredibly shrinking
_resident, the VICE _resident and their national
insecurity team to political oblivion...America's most
credible political pollster, Zogby, reports that "on
the eve of a Republican National Convention invoking
9/11 symbols, sound bytes and imagery, half (49.3%) of
New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens
overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance
that attacks were planned on or around September 11,
2001, and that they consciously failed to act."
(http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=855)
Meanwhile, the increasingy unhinged and incredibly
shrinking _resident, although perhaps *feeling good*
out on the stump, is nevertheless increasingly
unhinged and shrinking incredibly...The other day he
described his foolish military adventure in Iraq as a
"catastrophic success," soon afterwards in an in-depth
interview with another heavy lifter, NotBeSeen's Matt
Lauer, the increasingly unhinged and incredibly
shrinking _resident, having already botched, bungled,
misdiagnosed and even mis-named the "war on terror,"
has now declared it unwinnable.
Agence France Press: President George W. Bush (news -
web sites) said in an interview that he does not
believe the US-led war on terror can be won -- a
statement that opposition Democrats exploited with
great gusto.
Bush was asked in an interview on NBC television
whether the United States can win the war on terror.
"I don't think you can win it," he answered.
"After months of listening to the Republicans base
their campaign on their singular ability to win the
war on terror, the president now says we can't win the
war on terrorism," Edwards said in a speech in
Wilmington.
"This is no time to declare defeat," he said.
It is the second time in four days that Bush has been
taken to task over his own remarks.
In an interview published Friday with The New York
Times, Bush said he made a "miscalculation of what the
conditions would be" in Iraq (news - web sites) after
the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web
sites).
The Democrats reacted quickly. "The president has
finally abandoned his stubborn refusal to admit his
failure to plan," said Rand Beers, Kerry's adviser on
national security issues. "Now he must both plan and
act."
Retired army general Wesley Clark (news - web sites),
a former Democratic presidential candidate, took issue
with Bush's Monday statements in an interview with Fox
News. "I believe this war is winnable -- we won the
Cold War," he said. Clark, a the former supreme allied
commander in Europe, expanded on his views in a joint
telephone conference call with Democratic Senator Joe
Biden.
The chaos in Iraq "was not a miscalculation. It was simply negligence on the part of the president," Clark said. "It's a major mistake." Clark said that the war on terrorists "motivated by
Islamic extremist ideology is winnable, by going
after, attacking and defeating the specific groups
that attack us, cutting off their ability to recruit,
(and) defeating the claims of their ideology."
In Wilmington, Edwards reminded his audience that the
last time the United States "collided with an enemy
that wanted to destroy our way of life was at the end
of World War II."
"Imagine if President Truman had responded to the Iron
Curtain with a wall of indifference? Imagine if he had
turned his back on allies that had stood by our side?
Imagine if he had refused to lead the effort to
rebuild our former enemies, Germany and Japan?" he
asked.
Repudiate the 9/11 Cover-Up and the Iraq War Lies,
Show Up for Democracy in 2004: Defeat Bush (again!)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040830/ts_alt_afp/us_attacks_vote_bush_040830222544
Democrats pounce on Bush for declaring 'war on terror' unwinnable
Mon Aug 30, 6:25 PM ET Add U.S. National - AFP to My
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news -
web sites) said in an interview that he does not
believe the US-led war on terror can be won -- a
statement that opposition Democrats exploited with
great gusto.
Bush was asked in an interview on NBC television
whether the United States can win the war on terror.
"I don't think you can win it," he answered.
Despite the explanation that followed, opposition
Democrats -- hungry to sink Bush's 2004 re-election
aspirations -- immediately pounced on those seven
words.
Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s vice
presidential candidate, John Edwards (news - web
sites), bashed Bush for being defeatist while on the
campaign trail in North Carolina.
"After months of listening to the Republicans base
their campaign on their singular ability to win the
war on terror, the president now says we can't win the
war on terrorism," Edwards said in a speech in
Wilmington.
"This is no time to declare defeat," he said.
It is the second time in four days that Bush has been
taken to task over his own remarks.
In an interview published Friday with The New York
Times, Bush said he made a "miscalculation of what the
conditions would be" in Iraq (news - web sites) after
the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web
sites).
And the strong anti-US insurgency in Iraq was an
unintended byproduct of a "swift victory," he said.
Bush however refused to go into detail on what went
wrong, saying that it was a task best left to
historians.
The Democrats reacted quickly. "The president has
finally abandoned his stubborn refusal to admit his
failure to plan," said Rand Beers, Kerry's adviser on
national security issues. "Now he must both plan and
act."
Retired army general Wesley Clark (news - web sites),
a former Democratic presidential candidate, took issue
with Bush's Monday statements in an interview with Fox
News. "I believe this war is winnable -- we won the
Cold War," he said.
Clark, a the former supreme allied commander in
Europe, expanded on his views in a joint telephone
conference call with Democratic Senator Joe Biden.
The chaos in Iraq "was not a miscalculation. It was
simply negligence on the part of the president," Clark
said. "It's a major mistake."
Clark said that the war on terrorists "motivated by
Islamic extremist ideology is winnable, by going
after, attacking and defeating the specific groups
that attack us, cutting off their ability to recruit,
(and) defeating the claims of their ideology."
It was also important to strengthen homeland security
and keep militants from accessing weapons of mass
destruction, Clark said, adding that the Bush
administration's approach to the problem "is
fundamentally flawed."
Biden also took a swipe at Bush. "If we do not unite
the world in the resolution that the tactics of
Islamic terrorists are totally unacceptable, then we
will be fulfilling the prophecy of President Bush
(news - web sites) which is we can't totally win the
war," he said.
In Wilmington, Edwards reminded his audience that the
last time the United States "collided with an enemy
that wanted to destroy our way of life was at the end
of World War II."
"Imagine if President Truman had responded to the Iron
Curtain with a wall of indifference? Imagine if he had
turned his back on allies that had stood by our side?
Imagine if he had refused to lead the effort to
rebuild our former enemies, Germany and Japan?" he
asked.