GOP Must Stop Bush

Carl Bernstein calls on Republicans to stop Bush. He compares Bush's situation today to that of Nixon thirty years ago. The Bush administration has been aware of the systematic torture of detainees in Iraq:

Since January, Bush and Rumsfeld have been aware of credible complaints of systematic torture. In March, Taguba's report reached Rumsfeld. Yet neither Bush nor his Defense secretary expressed concern publicly or leveled with Congress until photographic evidence of an American Gulag, possessed for months by the administration, was broadcast to the world.

Honorable Republicans will find their party tainted for years to come by this worst case of the Bush Administration's errors and incompetence, which also includes alienation of the world community, environmental arrogance and blithe incomprehension of the consequences of global climate change, and an ongoing attempt to gut the New Deal safety net and distribute more income to the rich at the expense of the poor. While calling himself "the education president," he's cut funding for education. He's called himself a "war president" though he clearly know nothing of the consequences of war - while responsible for the deaths of hundreds of soldiers in an ill-concieved Iraqi war, Bush has seen fit to joke about his Administration's inability to produce the "weapons of mass destruction" that were its supposed purpose (and he alluded to them again tonight, in his address to the nation). Bush's legacy will be stain on the reputation of the Republican Party; less so only if Republicans acknowledge the problem and help vote him out of office. [Link to Bernstein in USA Today]

Posted by Jon Lebkowsky at May 24, 2004 9:31 PM | TrackBack