Bill Moyers Goes Off On The Shrub

…very politely, of course.
This is from the March 25, 2004 program of Bill Moyers NOW.
Wish I had more time to comment, but I think this one speaks for itself. (Like most stuff from Bill.)
Bill Moyers:

Mr. Bush clearly believes what he said: The War On Terror is an in escapable calling of the generation now in charge. Like many of you, I want to support him in that work. I want to do my part. But the President makes it hard. He confused us by going after Sadaam Hussein when villian behind the mass murder of 911 was Osama Bin Ladin. He seems not to realize how his credibility has been shredded by all the false and misleading reasons to put forth to justify invading Iraq.
Lyndon Johnson never recovered from using the dubious events at the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to go to war in Vietnam, and even if Mr. Bush wins reelection this November, he too will eventually be dragged down by the powerful undertow that inevitably accompanies public deception.
The public will grow intolerant of partisan predators and cronie capitalists indulging in a frenzy of feeding at the troughs in Baghdad and Washington, and there will come a time when the President will have no one to rely on except his most rabid allies in the right wing media. He will discover too late that you cannot win the hearts and minds of the public at large in a nation polarized and pulvarized by endless propaganda in defiance of reality.

Bill Moyers: What Now? (Small – 11 MB)

2 thoughts on “Bill Moyers Goes Off On The Shrub

  1. Geoff Arnold

    Bill Moyers on patriotism in time of war

    Among Lisa Rein’s archives of TV clips is this piece by Bill Moyers, from March 25. Simple, direct, moving. (She also has the hilarious Daily Show piece on Richard Clarke’s 9/11 Commission testimony.)…

  2. meta-roj blog

    the president makes it hard

    bill moyers, “what now,” 2004.03.26 mister bush clearly believes what he says: the war on terror is an inescapable calling of the generation now in charge. like many of you, i want to support him in that work, but the…

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