Letters to the Editor
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McCain Equals Bush
The media has failed to pick up on the fact that this candidate not only wants to continue Bush's failed Iraq policy, and continue Bush's misguided saber-rattling toward Iran, but he is also continuing Bush's pattern of misleading the public about the nature of military threats that face this country.
Bush aroused calls for his impeachment for misleading the nation into war. In a supposedly democratic nation, lying is one of the worst offences a leader can commit, and Bush marched right up to the line with misstatements, exaggerations, and surrogates who were willing to outright lie, all to create the impression that a war with Iraq was a retaliation for the terrrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Not only did two-thirds of the country believe Iraq had attacked us, but one hundred percent of us know that the connection was made. It was a feel-good war, brought to you by the impulse for racial profiling on an international scale. We have been attacked by the Islamofascists, and we must defend civilization from their corrupting influence, whatever that means.
So when McCain makes a misstatement that IRAN is somehow linked to Al Quaeda, and makes the misstatement repeatedly, why can't the media smell the Big Lie? McCain is using the same technique Bush used 4000 dead soldiers ago. Don't they notice it? For a pundit to say "if it were a different speaker, the misstatement would have gotten more attention", is to totally misrepresent the problem with the misstatement. We don't need to be concerned about McCain's experience. We need to be concerned about his willingness to continue Bush's policy of misleading the nation about the so-called Global War On Terror. If McCain is already lying about the nature of the threat embodied in Iran, why would he stop once he is elected?