Stupid Controversy of the Day
Charles Johnson
Tue Aug 31, 2004 at 4:14 pm PDT • Views: 146
Several of my fans (the ones who hate LGF but can’t seem to stop reading) have been emailing me about this absurdly trumped-up story of George W. Bush “flip-flopping,” as if it were important: Bush Recants, Says Terror War Will Be Won.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - President Bush said repeatedly on Tuesday that the United States will win its war against terrorism, trying to contain political damage from the doubt he expressed a day earlier.
“We may never sit down at a peace table, but make no mistake about it, we are winning and we will win,” Bush told 6,500 veterans at an American Legion convention.
“We will win by staying on the offensive, we will win by spreading liberty,” Bush told the veterans.
The president was trying to douse the criticism he touched off Monday when NBC aired an interview in which he was asked if the United States could win the war on terror and he answered, “I don’t think you can win it.”
He added, in the interview, “I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.”
Democrats hit hard at Bush’s comment for a second day.
I’m sorry, but making an issue out of something like this is just … well … stupid. Bush could easily have defended his original statement (there’s a lot of truth in it, on many levels) but chose to back down, to dodge a foolish political brouhaha.
Lots of flak in the air. Meanwhile John Kerry continues avoiding the media.
Frank says: