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Gotta love those Independents

fff

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Sanders Stands Up For Logic in Bushworld
By Elana Schor - January 12, 2009, 10:52AM

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has written to the Smithsonian raising questions about the caption that sits beneath its new portrait of George W. Bush. The current wording of the caption states that Bush's term was marked by "the attacks on September 11, 2001, that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Sanders, bless his heart, points out that the 9/11 attacks -- all together, now -- had nothing to do with the Iraq war.

From Sanders' letter to Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington:

When President Bush and Vice President Cheney misled our country into the war in Iraq, they certainly cited the attacks on September 11, along with the equally specious claim that Iraq possessed vast arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. The notion, however, that 9/11 and Iraq were linked, or that one "led to" the other, has been widely and authoritatively debunked ... Might I suggest that a reconsideration of the explanatory text next to the portrait of President Bush is in order[?]

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/sanders_stands_up_for_logic_in_bushworld.php
 

Soapweed

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fff said:
Sanders Stands Up For Logic in Bushworld
By Elana Schor - January 12, 2009, 10:52AM

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has written to the Smithsonian raising questions about the caption that sits beneath its new portrait of George W. Bush. The current wording of the caption states that Bush's term was marked by "the attacks on September 11, 2001, that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Sanders, bless his heart, points out that the 9/11 attacks -- all together, now -- had nothing to do with the Iraq war.

From Sanders' letter to Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington:

When President Bush and Vice President Cheney misled our country into the war in Iraq, they certainly cited the attacks on September 11, along with the equally specious claim that Iraq possessed vast arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. The notion, however, that 9/11 and Iraq were linked, or that one "led to" the other, has been widely and authoritatively debunked ... Might I suggest that a reconsideration of the explanatory text next to the portrait of President Bush is in order[?]

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/sanders_stands_up_for_logic_in_bushworld.php

Most "Independents" are merely Democrats in disguise, but they are just too ashamed to call themselves that. :roll:
 
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Anonymous

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Reminds me of the looks and the squirming which turned into fuming against GW- of the Repub Congressmen during the committee hearing when the original intelligence report was presented- and compared to the one the Bush crew had given Congress to make their decision on...

As the committee went thru it page by page- and showed where many important items had been deleted, some had been altered, and you could see the whole crew of Repubs turn red fuming when they found out the last sentence of the report where the intelligence agency summarizes that "Iraq poses no immediate security threat to the US" had been totally removed...
 

VanC

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The word "independent" can be misleading, and in this case implies that Sanders is somewhere in the middle politically. Hardly. Sanders is a Socialist, always has been, and freely admits it. He thinks Barack Obama is a right wing nut. Not surprising that he would say such things about President Bush. Take it with a grain of salt.
 
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