Comments on: BUSH ADDRESS PREVIEW http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bush_address_preview/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:20:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: flory http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bush_address_preview/#comment-5622 flory Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3157#comment-5622 Perhaps its a bit of overcompensation. 8 months of swallowing, and then regurgitating, Bush propaganda. Now, a little late, they're making an attempt to point out how completely without basis <b>all</b> of it was. Perhaps its a bit of overcompensation. 8 months of swallowing, and then regurgitating, Bush propaganda. Now, a little late, they're making an attempt to point out how completely without basis all of it was.

]]> By: Mithras http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bush_address_preview/#comment-5623 Mithras Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3157#comment-5623 <i>"no conclusive evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction has been found and no substantive links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda have been established"</i> <i>One also has to love the editorializing contained in what's supposed to be a straight news story.</i> Those are facts, not opinion. It is not editorializing to include facts that are relevant to the topic in the story. Or is anything that doesn't parrot the (Republican) Administration's talking point now all "spin"? "no conclusive evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction has been found and no substantive links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda have been established"

One also has to love the editorializing contained in what's supposed to be a straight news story.

Those are facts, not opinion. It is not editorializing to include facts that are relevant to the topic in the story. Or is anything that doesn't parrot the (Republican) Administration's talking point now all "spin"?

]]> By: James Joyner http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bush_address_preview/#comment-5624 James Joyner Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3157#comment-5624 Flory: The press have hardly been parotting the Bush party line on Iraq. Mithras: It is true that no WMD have been found (or at least reported), but that's really irrelevant in terms of the GWOT. Whether evidence of Saddam-al Qaeda is "substantive" is indeed a matter of opinion--even though mine is that it's not. Regardless, there are terrorist groups other than al Qaeda, so the war could be tied to GWOT either way. --- Flory: The press have hardly been parotting the Bush party line on Iraq.

Mithras: It is true that no WMD have been found (or at least reported), but that's really irrelevant in terms of the GWOT. Whether evidence of Saddam-al Qaeda is "substantive" is indeed a matter of opinion--even though mine is that it's not. Regardless, there are terrorist groups other than al Qaeda, so the war could be tied to GWOT either way.

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