Why do wingnuts still believe anything the Bush administration ever said? Or do they?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
It’s Tinkerbell syndrome, you can make something true by simply repeating it over and over again.
I think this quotation from Churchill sums it up:
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
But if you read this, Obama is really Bush II http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTNiMjQzODZiNWIwMDk2MjkwZmEyNmU5ZjYxYmYzNWY=&w=MA==
“So to summarize: We’d love to close Guantanamo, but we can’t right now; we’d love to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo, but other countries don’t want them; we’d love to give every detainee a civilian trial, but we don’t have enough evidence; we’d love to release the detainees we can’t charge with crimes, but our intelligence tells us they’re dangerous, so doing so would be irresponsible; and we’d love to stick to the highly civilized, detainee-friendly interrogation practices approved by the Army Field Manual, but every now and then there may be an emergency when something more severe is warranted.
Underneath all the lofty rhetoric, we’re gratified to see that this is change George W. Bush could believe in. “