it was one thing yesterday when bush suggested we end tyranny in oppression around the world, albeit by creating our own tyrannical empire to control all that. but when Cheney makes this statement--"we don't want a war in the middle east?" one has to pause and wonder what the hell is going on. How can there not be a war in the middle east??? US and British troops are on the ground in several middle eastern countries and are engaged in daily combat operations. the israelis are constantly at war with the palestinians, and the various factions and sects of islam are at war with each other. What would be war beyond any of this if this isn't a war? These Rovians are out of their minds; they think that noone is paying even the slightest bit of attention to their pronouncements, so they feel free to say some of the dumbest stuff imagineable.
Read the rest of these quotes; deconstruct them and define them. It is clear that he was reading a prepared script that he had no clue whatsoever of knowing what it meant or meaning any of what it said. Just try to follow the fire metaphor here from kindled to warm to burning to untamed.
When Bush wasn’t creating these lopsided debates, he often slipped into junior-high-school-style rhetoric about freedom: “As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well as a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power; it burns those who fight its progress. And one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.”
But Bush wasn’t done with his pedantic lecture. “Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self,” Bush said. “Americans move forward in every generation by reaffirming all that is good and true that came before, ideals of justice and conduct that are the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
And on he went: “In America's ideal of freedom, the exercise of rights is ennobled by service, and mercy, and a heart for the weak. Liberty for all does not mean independence from one another. Our nation relies on men and women who look after a neighbor and surround the lost with love.”
