Saturday, May 01, 2004

"Mission Accomplished" - NOT!

Remember that lovely little scene one year ago today?

When Bush staged a carrier landing and strutted around the deck in a flight suit, declaring “Mission Accomplished”? That major combat was now over in Iraq? That we would be down to 30,000 troops by the end of the summer? That we would find the WMDs any day now?

Not!

“One year later, despite many challenges, life for the Iraqi people is a world away from the cruelty and corruption of Saddam’s regime. At the most basic level of justice, people are no longer disappearing into political prisons, torture chambers, and mass graves”

Not!

This quote was from Bush’s weekly radio address today, even as we were hearing about the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the same prison that Saddam used for the same purpose, at the hands of American troops. News that broke at the end of the bloodiest month yet for our soldiers, over 140 dead in April, more than in the initial invasion itself.

Lies to get us into this war, lies during it, lies afterwards.
Lies about Kerry’s record. Lies about his own.
Lies about the economy, the environment, and taxes.
Lies upon lies upon lies.

And he thinks he deserves to be re-elected.

Not!

- Bob Woods