Noise from the Peanut Gallery
I don’t know if Rush Limbaugh knows what the word insensitive means but his logic in a comment he made this week on his show was nothing but insensitive.
Joe Conason reported Rush’s comments as follows:
"One or two Americans a day are dying in Iraq. So why are we getting a daily Iraq death update when we don't get daily drowning death updates or fire death updates or pedestrian updates, accidents, this kind, when the numbers are clearly far greater than what is happening in Iraq?"
These aren’t just Americans, these are soldiers. There is a difference and Rush should be ashamed, though I doubt he’s allowed himself to feel shame. He has definitely not considered his comment in light of the soldiers serving and fighting under unstable and oftentimes hostile conditions, their families, and the families of those soldiers who have been slain. Their experience while serving and their untimely deaths can in no manner be compared to victims of casual drowning, fire, car accidents, etc. Absolutely absurd.
It’s as bad as Bush brandishing his cowboy mentality and taunting the guerilla army’s of Iraq to "Bring it on!"
In Other News
Death of Saddam's Sons
Following on the heels of Bush’s worst poll ratings since Sept. 11 comes word and validation from Iraq that Saddam's two sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a six hour firefight with US troops.
RNC Biting Their Nails
The GOP's Republican National Committee are worried that the indicators are not positive in the re-election of Bush–bad economy; bad poll numbers; rising deaths of American soldiers in Iraq; no WMD; no Saddam; no Bin Laden.
Another Apology, No Resignations
Another Bush advisor apologized for allowing the 16 words on the Niger uranium claim to be kept in the State of the Union Address. Stephan Hadley, President Bush’s deputy national security advisor, and top aid to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, made the announcement today, iterating the fact that he had apologized to Bush on Monday about the mixup. It was mentioned that Hadley offered to resign but the offer was not accepted by Bush.
Tom Raum of the AP, reports that the Democrats had this to say:
Meanwhile, Democrats used the development to step up their criticism of the president. "First they blamed the Brits. Then CIA Director George Tenet walked the plank. Now the White House is dragging (Hadley) forward to take the fall for the president's bogus claim," said Tony Welch, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee (news _ web sites).
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a Democratic presidential hopeful, asserted in a statement that "I call on all who misled the president to resign immediately. ... The story line continues to change from day to day on this matter."
Raum also cites that the White House is asking GOP leaders to strike back at the criticism that has begun to affect his poll numbers. Raum writes:
Separately the administration is pressing its GOP allies in Congress to do more to emphasize some of the upside to deposing Saddam.
Other aggressive efforts are expected by the administration in the days ahead to try to regain control of the message, including a possible speech on the issue by Vice President Dick Cheney (news _ web sites), administration and congressional GOP aides said.
Bush himself has said the uranium phrase had been cleared by intelligence agencies. The president has sidestepped questions on whether he felt personally responsible for the tainted information.
The White House last week began an offensive to try to stem the criticism, including putting out newly declassified portions of an October 2002 intelligence report that reflected widespread concern that Iraq was in pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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