The Peace President
 
From WorkingForChange, uber-Texan Molly Ivins on the latest round of Republican talking points:
 
According to The New York Times, "several Republicans," presumably speaking for the Bush campaign, noted that American casualties in Iraq are down from last month. Actually, that is quite untrue. Forty-two Americans were killed in Iraq in June, presumed to be an unusually bloody month because it was leading up to the big handover of sovereignty. As of July 21, 43 more Americans have been killed in Iraq, with 10 days still to go in the month.

Total number of Americans killed so far is 901, but the new line is: What War? We turned it over to the Iraqis, see? Presto, it disappears, just like magic. It's their problem now. Doesn't have anything to do with us. Bush is out campaigning by calling himself "the peace president." Honest. "He repeated the words 'peace' or 'peaceful' many times, as he had done increasingly in his recent appearances," reported The New York Times from Iowa this week.
 
Of course, this is presaged by Bush's comment a couple of years ago that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is also a "man of peace." This was right after Sharon sent the tanks into the occupied territories for one of the biggest bloodbaths in the entire history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.  Orwell had Big Brother; we've got Big Monkey.
 
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