PRESIDENT BUSH: Well that’s — killers taking innocent life is, in some cases, sectarian. I happen to view it as criminal, as well as sectarian. I think any time you murder somebody, you’re a criminal. And I believe a just society and a society of — that holds people to account and believes in rule of law protects innocent people from murderers, no matter what their political party is.
That’s from a White House Press Release
So I’m going to go ahead and assume that President Bush believes that the 100,000+ Iraqi civilians killed by the United States over the past few years are all guilty as Christian Sin.
Or, he’s saying that America is not a Just Society.
Neocons out there want you to believe that there’s a Good and an Evil. No nuance. No subtlety. No context. Yet watch them provide context for this, and then carefully and irresponsibly substitute Bush’s vagueness for subtlety and nuance.
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We have gone from the immortal eloquence of Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt to “I think when you murder somebody, you’re a criminal.” We can’t even get a laconic semi-wit like Calvin Coolidge these days. Call in the Huns and the Visigoths; we’re done.
Hearing Bush talk makes me naseous. I’m praying for a president with a Yankee accent. And a soul.
to the other side, what america is doing in Iraq is exactly murder. it’s all a matter of POV.