Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Hey Bungalow Bill.....
Imagine my surprise today while perusing the various columnists and coming across this opinion piece by nattering nabob of negatism Bill O'Reilly.
Normally O'Reilly is a strident Bush apologist. He also has a tendency to stretch the truth into behemothly unrecognizable portions. Today's ditty, while couched in his regular antiliberal rhetorical bias, gives the Bush Administration/Campaign a zing:
While the media is partially to blame for using Abu Ghraib as a hammer to bludgeon the Bush administration, thereby inserting a political agenda in the middle of an important news story, the president is to blame as well. Clearly, something is very wrong when inexperienced, poorly trained military reservists are allowed to run wild and abuse prisoners. Clearly, something is wrong when enormous mistakes are made in the occupation of a country whose defeat was a foregone conclusion. I mean everybody knew the USA would defeat Saddam, so why was the aftermath of the war so screwed up? Is this another intelligence failure? Is this a strategic failure on the part of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his team? We don't know because Mr. Bush rarely holds anyone publicly accountable for doing his or her job poorly.
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Normally O'Reilly is a strident Bush apologist. He also has a tendency to stretch the truth into behemothly unrecognizable portions. Today's ditty, while couched in his regular antiliberal rhetorical bias, gives the Bush Administration/Campaign a zing:
While the media is partially to blame for using Abu Ghraib as a hammer to bludgeon the Bush administration, thereby inserting a political agenda in the middle of an important news story, the president is to blame as well. Clearly, something is very wrong when inexperienced, poorly trained military reservists are allowed to run wild and abuse prisoners. Clearly, something is wrong when enormous mistakes are made in the occupation of a country whose defeat was a foregone conclusion. I mean everybody knew the USA would defeat Saddam, so why was the aftermath of the war so screwed up? Is this another intelligence failure? Is this a strategic failure on the part of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his team? We don't know because Mr. Bush rarely holds anyone publicly accountable for doing his or her job poorly.
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