Is anyone else bothered by Gw Bush's mentality that once he has latched onto an idea, he will not waver, even if it is wrong? He will never say that he was wrong about anything. If he said the sky was purple with orange polkadots, you would never sway him to say otherwise. He claimed that tere were stockpiles of WMD all over Iraq. I believe Rumsfeld even said we knew where they were. He called the UN ineffective in their inspections because they were not finding these weapons. He said the sanctions were doing nothing. He made his biggest argument for going to war on these exact points, thousands of people have died over these very points, and none of them turned out to be true. Still as of yet, we have heard nothing from him by way of saying that he has made any lapses in judgement.
We have only heard the man say that other people were wrong. While this may be true, and he had apparently based his judgment on all of these other people's bad information, that does not change the fact that he circumvented UN actions that were in fact working. He did not allow UN inspections to continue because they were finding nothing. The fact is, there seems to have been nothing to find. This was now confirmed by two seperate reports by people he appointed himself. He rushed to war over points that were false through and through. A real leader does not point fingers for his mistakes, he takes responsibility for his own actions. The intelligence community did not make his decision to turn on the UN. They did not make him turn his back on allies over personal convictions. They did not make his choices for him. They gave information, and he decided what to do with that information himself. Bush decided to go to war, and attempt to discredit the UN over actions that were in place and working effectivly.
So now what do we hear? The same rhetoric that he used when he was making choices based on bad information. Sadam posed a threat. The problem is that the threat we were told in no uncertain terms that Sadam posed were false. Now, the rhetoric remains the same. If the information has changed, how is it possible for the threat not to have changed?
The worst part is, he seems to not only tout this as his best quality, but condemn others who will not do the same. Unwavering stuborness in the face of reality does not seem like a quality that I find apealing in the president of the United States. He has continuously had to change his story for justification of this war rather than admit what really happened.What is so apealing about a man who will not admit he is wrong no matter what? He has continuously had to change his story for justification of this war rather than admit what really happened.Is that integrity? Is that honesty? Or is it just bull headed stupidity and living in a fantasy world? There is a time to stand by your actions, and there is a time to admit a missjudgment. It takes a bigger man to admit his mistakes than to change his story to cover his own rear end.
This message has been edited by MrPhy42, 10-09-2004 09:27 PM
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