Post by RS Davis on Apr 27, 2004 9:20:25 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Anthony Gregory Wrote:[/glow] Many Americans complain that there’s too much partisanship in our country, especially considering the crises we face. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Democrats and Republicans both voted overwhelmingly for the Patriot Act and the War on Iraq, and their only differences now break down to superficial arguments over minute details.
The mainstream media portray the nearly identical platforms of Bush and Kerry as polar opposites, and many Americans swallow this misconception. Republican hawks don’t like facing reality any more than Democratic doves, and yet they do so accidentally sometimes. Many pro-war conservatives have resorted to the argument that we should not fault Bush for his false claims about the threat of Saddam’s WMD, because Kerry made such claims himself. Since even Kerry backed the war, how could it be wrong? Strangely enough, though, while Kerry’s similarities to Bush on the war issue supposedly help to vindicate the Republican president, many Republicans still lash out at Kerry for being too soft on terrorists.
Bush defenders also like to point out that Clinton waged wars. They are correct, but they defy reason when they imply that Clinton’s undeclared, illegal wars – which some of today’s conservative hawks rightly opposed in the 1990s – give license to Bush to wage illegal wars on his own.
The mainstream media portray the nearly identical platforms of Bush and Kerry as polar opposites, and many Americans swallow this misconception. Republican hawks don’t like facing reality any more than Democratic doves, and yet they do so accidentally sometimes. Many pro-war conservatives have resorted to the argument that we should not fault Bush for his false claims about the threat of Saddam’s WMD, because Kerry made such claims himself. Since even Kerry backed the war, how could it be wrong? Strangely enough, though, while Kerry’s similarities to Bush on the war issue supposedly help to vindicate the Republican president, many Republicans still lash out at Kerry for being too soft on terrorists.
Bush defenders also like to point out that Clinton waged wars. They are correct, but they defy reason when they imply that Clinton’s undeclared, illegal wars – which some of today’s conservative hawks rightly opposed in the 1990s – give license to Bush to wage illegal wars on his own.
