August 24, 2007
Bill Moyers Clip File
BILL MOYERS: We’re launching a new feature on THE JOURNAL this week. We call it our clip file — stories we collect that may have fallen through the cracks or disappeared under the avalanche of information that falls on all of us every day. We begin with the war in Iraq.
The Bush White House has launched a massive new P.R. campaign with the message: the surge in Iraq is working. Let’s stay the course! The president called on the ghosts of Vietnam to help him win support for a prolonged occupation:
PRESIDENT BUSH AT THE VETERANS FOR FOREIGN WARS: One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people, re-education camps and killing fields’.
* Read the President’s speech.
BILL MOYERS: History is already repeating itself in Washington. Remember Ari Fleischer?
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[tags]Iraq, Surge, War, Impeach Bush[/tags]
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