Bush Owes us an Apology
September 20th, 2006
I saw this on a newly added blog to my reader - The Indy Voice. I tend to miss things on network news, and feel I am better off for it. This however, I applaud.
Keith Olbermann “offers a special comment” on President Bush’s soon-to-be (in)famous Rose Garden news conference. Watch the video here (it’s only 8 minutes).
I commend the bravery of Mr. Olbermann in standing what appears to be alone amongst his peers. Why didn’t this get more airtime? How come more members of the media aren’t asking similar questions, or making similar demands? Oh, that’s right. NFL season is back, the MLB race is on for the playoffs, and Clay Aiken has a new look.
Equally important, and regretably ignored by Olbermann, we were told that not only were we not allowed to think about a comparison, but that:
It’s unacceptable to think that there’s any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.
How many women and children have died at the pursuit of American objectives? If there is anything that we have in common with those Islamic extremists, it’s our willingness to sacrifice the lives of innocents. Not only are we willing (eager?) to make those sacrifices, we have a history of stripping away any annoying little civil liberty that may interfere with the operation.
So what’s next? What opinion are we prohibited from expressing next? How far away are we from a full-fledged attack on any form of dissension? Is this the country that you believed it to be?
September 21st, 2006 at 1:48 am
Wow! Someone spoke up! Maybe there is hope after all.
September 21st, 2006 at 3:50 am
Thanks for your comments on lack of media awareness
September 21st, 2006 at 10:24 am
What, you don’t like Clay Aikens new look?
September 21st, 2006 at 10:39 am
You link to the Indy Voice who has a post http://www.theindyvoice.com/2006/09/20/iranian-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-interviewed-on-nbc-nightly-news.html
on the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Interviewed on NBC Nightly New.
The Indy Voice then says,
“Despite the Bush administration’s ongoing propaganda the Iranian President doesn’t sound too much like a “dangerous mind” in an interview on NBC Nightly News,”
The guy publicly expresses his doubts the Holocaust is a historically established fact.
Greg, do you guys not think a leader of a nation publicly expressing his doubts the Holocaust existed is a dangerous leader?
That’s a dangerious mind.
September 21st, 2006 at 10:40 am
Ha. I really didn’t know he had an old look. But one thing we can all agree upon, he looks hot.
September 21st, 2006 at 11:18 am
After watching that interview, nothing that he said sounded very dangerous to me.
I was unaware of his casting doubt on the holocaust. However, even if that was the case, does that give us the right to depose him?
Granted, he may be an idiot. We may not agree with his philospohies. We may not like him. But that still doesn’t grant us the authority to plan for war.
Moreover, if we are going to unseat a president for being an idiot, or having a dangerous mind, we need not travel all the way to Iran.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Frankly, the president of Iran and the president of Venezuela are both very dangerous men. They have a very dangerous and underhanded agenda.
It makes me want to puke when I see people like Cindy Sheehan hugging the president of Ven. just as much as it made people sick to see what Jane Fonda did during the Vietnam war.
Come on people… these kooks want to take this country over and I guess we will just say “peace at any cost” and let them right? I don’t THINK so!
These people harbor and support the very violent idiots who decided to come over here and fly our planes into buildings to blow up almost 3000 people on 9/11. And now there are actual Americans who want to say that our president is equal to that?
I may not agree with every little thing Bush does or says, but I certainly don’t think he is an evil person wanting to kill innocent civilians.
There are many Iraqis who have publicly risked their lives to thank our soldiers and our country for SAVING them and there are many others in Darfur and other places who will hopefully thank us soon!
What do people want us to do? Stay holed up in the USA and build a fortress around ourselves…. hiding like cowards from terrorists all the time hoping they will not decide to blow us up again?
I mean I hear “peace” “no war” “pull out of Iraq” “Bush lied” etc etc etc. But, I hear no ideas for alternatives on how to protect this country from a largely unseen enemy. Where are the ideas? Please tell me. I am dying to hear. Because all I hear is criticism of what IS being done, but no suggestions for what should be done instead.
September 21st, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Unfortunately, these comments have gone completely off topic, but…
>>They have a very dangerous and underhanded agenda.
Not any moreso than our foreign policies.
>>these kooks want to take this country over and I guess we will just say “peace at any cost” and let them right? I don’t THINK so!
Do you truly belive that there is a possibility of either Iran or Venezuela taking over this country?? Or for that matter any other country in the world taking over this country? And of course we have a right to defend ourselves, but that doesn’t include the overthrowing of elected officials with whom we disagree. Or worse - an attack on a sovereign nation in opposition of international law.
>>but I certainly don’t think he is an evil person wanting to kill innocent civilians.
How many innocent civilians have died in Iraq? Afghanistan?
>>but no suggestions for what should be done instead.
You are looking in the wrong places - unfortunately you are not going to hear of alternatives on FOX News or CNN.
More than anything, we need to start dealing with countries (all countries) in an even and balanced approach. We can’t play by one set of rules, and expect the rest of the world to play by another set (as dictated by US policy). That would go a long way in helping curb the ever growing tide of anti-Americanism worldwide.
Additionally, we could cut military spending by half. That would probably have the largest impact overall, long term.
Closing down some of our military bases in outposts all over the world would probably make the rest of the planet sleep a little better.
Reeling in our sales of weapons to other countries would go a long way in making the world a safer place for all of us.
Ceasing the practice of covertly impeding with the democratic processes of other countries.
These are merely a few basic military or policy changes that would change a lot. There are also many, many, economic and social changes that we could facilitate that would carry equal weight.
September 21st, 2006 at 11:30 pm
“What opinion are we prohibited from expressing next? How far away are we from a full-fledged attack on any form of dissension?”
Seriously, if you truly concerned, you would not be expressing your opinions because it would be easy to shut you down if anyone really cared. The first place one could look would be here:
https://joker.com/?&tool=whois&t_whois=greghartnett.com&go_back_mode=order_check
But, nobody, including the gov., cares if you rant. Hence, you are safe and, therefore, silly.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Voicing concern over the President’s condemnation of dissension is silly?
September 25th, 2006 at 11:39 am
Damn, Greg, you are dense. BTW, your comments at Hot Air reveal what an idiot you truly are. Especially your comment about what did Islamists from Saudi Arabia have to do with Iraq? The gentleman didn’t die in Iraq. He died in Afghanistan. You remember Afghanistan, don’t you? You know the Afghanistan that was lead by the Taliban, which was in bed with Al Queda, who perpetrated the terrorist attack on 9/11? THAT Afghanistan?
September 27th, 2006 at 11:56 am
You should review the Olbermann show where he gives Bill Clinton a blowjob, I mean a check for his charity. What a joke.
October 28th, 2006 at 12:11 am
I too, commend the bravery of Mr. Olbermann. His “Deathof Habeus Corpus” piece was excellent. No one even comes close to his level of eloquence on the other side of political commentary. Thanks for sharing your opinions, Greg, including your comment on Hot Air(that’s where I discovered you).
By the way, kat–I’m really interested in watching what kind of charity GW sets up after he leaves office.