acroyear: (weirdos...)
Joe's Ancient Jottings ([personal profile] acroyear) wrote2008-02-11 06:15 pm
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does anybody ever associated with this administration have a clue?

STLtoday - News - Politics:
Bush "respects liberty so profoundly that he has protected it and has safeguarded civil liberties more than any other president in wartime that I know of,'' Ashcroft said.
Hattip: Dispatches

[identity profile] ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com 2008-02-11 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Obviously not! To compare the Iraq war to the World Wars is ridiculous. A better comparison would be the conflict in Viet Nam. Since I was a wee sprout through most of that (and non-existent for the earliest years) I don't really recall what sort of liberties were infringed upon, from my history classes, I don't recall that there were near the restrictions during Viet Nam as there were during the World Wars.

[identity profile] fiona64.livejournal.com 2008-02-11 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm wondering whom Ashcroft is using as grounds for comparison. Vlad the Impaler, perhaps?

[identity profile] voltbang.livejournal.com 2008-02-12 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
He hasn't put all the japanese people in internment camps, no one at kent state was shot by national guardsmen. So, George Bush deserves a medal, and at least another three years in office.

Oh, and no one was massacred at little big horn. He gets cookies for that.

[identity profile] fiona64.livejournal.com 2008-02-12 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah ... but the day is still young.

[identity profile] marauderosu.livejournal.com 2008-02-12 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Has there ever been an administration more out-of-touch with reality than the Bush Administration?