doing the work of his White House masters
Mar. 12th, 2004 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheThe secretary of state went on Fox News to do some campaigning for Bush. Powell called Kerry’s criticism of the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein’s regime "politicization."
"Sen. Kerry was arriving at those judgments using the same intelligence base, the same intelligence information that President Clinton and Vice President Gore had previously, and that President Bush was receiving from the Central Intelligence Agency," Powell said. "Sen. Kerry accepted it and spoke as if he believed it. And now a year later, to say the president was doing the wrong thing or he misled the nation, just is inaccurate."
Powell added gratuitously, "we shouldn't be having a political debate over issues like that."
But of course the Iraq war was a political decision with election-year effects both in 2002 and this year.
Only March, but what a nasty deadlock
-- Well, Mr. Powell, if war isn't a political issue, what is?
And does no one else remember the absolute chill on dissenting political speech three years ago? My God, the Bush administration made clear that it brooked no criticism and sought to squelch any that came up.
"Sen. Kerry was arriving at those judgments using the same intelligence base, the same intelligence information that President Clinton and Vice President Gore had previously, and that President Bush was receiving from the Central Intelligence Agency," Powell said. "Sen. Kerry accepted it and spoke as if he believed it. And now a year later, to say the president was doing the wrong thing or he misled the nation, just is inaccurate."
Powell added gratuitously, "we shouldn't be having a political debate over issues like that."
But of course the Iraq war was a political decision with election-year effects both in 2002 and this year.
Only March, but what a nasty deadlock
-- Well, Mr. Powell, if war isn't a political issue, what is?
And does no one else remember the absolute chill on dissenting political speech three years ago? My God, the Bush administration made clear that it brooked no criticism and sought to squelch any that came up.