Jeffrey Feldman: George W. Bush "Kept Us Safe"?

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from HuffPost:





Jeffrey Feldman
Author of Framing The Debate, Founder of Frameshop (frameshopisopen.com)

George W. Bush "Kept Us Safe"?




Lately, the only thing worse than Dick Cheney's boldfaced lie that the Bush administration policies "kept us safe" is the gaggle of mainstream journalists mindlessly repeating it.

My question for journalists working for CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NPR and the like is very simple: Exactly what kind of delusional definition of "kept us safe" is swirling around your cobweb covered newsrooms? That definition must be some kind of crazy, because it accommodates not only the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history and the tragic death of thousands in New Orleans, but dozens of other yikes-we-are-so-not-safe moments, all which happened during George W. Bush's Presidency.

For example:

During George W. Bush's Presidency, thousands of soldiers died in Iraq--a war we now know without question to have been waged as part of an ideological program, not out of necessity. Those thousands of soldiers each had parents, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, children, and hometowns dragged through the cruel stop-gap policies imposed on service men and women by George W. Bush.

During George W. Bush's Presidency, tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers were injured, only to return to the squalid conditions and cruel indifference of a veterans' care medical system that fell through the cracks of America's for-profit healthcare racket. The tragedy of our injured soldiers came to light during George W. Bush's Presidency. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/george-w-bush-kept-us-saf_b_206264.html

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1. Almost everbody forgets V.P. Gore's White House Commission on Aviation Safety

If they had used the recommendations given in that report after hearing the Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6th 911 probably wouldn't have happened. When is LIHOP going to get it's due in the media?

Scuba

[indepat]

2. But, but, but junior's policies, actions, and inactions have kept our economy, jobs, environment,

stock markets, investments, housing market, capital markets, and banks safe. :P

[Wednesdays]

3. K&R

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[BeFree]

4. Bush? No

Clinton? Yeah. We were kept safe for a good 8 years. Thanks, Bill.

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5. 911 HAPPENED ON HIS WATCH

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6. let's see how safe

we are 20 yrs from now. but hey, cheeney will be dead by then. right? RIGHT?!?