[Vision2020] Inside "Bush's Brain"

[Melynda Huskey]

Pat writes:
>But, this is my vote for president of the United States of America! To use
>this 'only slightly wrong' information to influence my vote is a disgrace.

So Bush's "only slightly wrong" information about the (non-existent) links 
between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, about the (again non-existent) weapons 
of mass destruction in Iraq, and about the (guess what?  non-existent) 
immediate threat to the U.S. in Iraq--which he used to justify a war in 
which more than a thousand U.S. soldiers have died is also a disgrace, 
right?  And now that he's trying to influence people's votes with that 
information, we ought to hold him accountable, right?

Michael Moore is a film maker.  George W. Bush is the President.  They have 
an equal obligation to tell the truth--but when Bush lies, or distorts the 
truth, or just doesn't bother to get good advice, the fate of the whole 
world hangs in the balance.

It's not just the deaths in Iraq--which include, of course, coalition 
partners and Iraqi civilians and combatants.  The death toll in Afghanistan, 
which is now reverting to Taliban control, is rising.  Between 6,000 and 
10,000 people a month are dying in Darfur--victims of government-sponsored 
violence against black Africans, and of the diseases associated with their 
status as refugees.  Russia faces an assault on multi-party government which 
Putin justifies with reference to U.S. policies.  In this country, human 
rights are eroding as the government uses its influence to silence and 
intimidate critics.

Frankly, I'm hard pressed to imagine what distortion Michael Moore could 
produce that would compare.

Melynda Huskey