Amazing editorial in local Gannett paper!! (anti-Bush!!!)

[ithacan]

The local paper is owned by Gannett Corporation and toes the corporate line.

So imagine my shock and amazement this morning when I looked at the editorial in this morning's paper. Does this mean Bush is starting down a Nixonian vortex?

from The Ithaca Journal, Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Credibility implosion
Errors, lies and mistrust

EDITORIAL

When George W. Bush's presidency runs the gauntlet of commentators and historians in years to come, the concept of "opportunity lost" will surely emerge again and again.

<snip>

Whether the war can be traced to lies, incompetence or a combination of the two, the sacrifice of soldiers, civilians and resources on the Iraq war appear to have been unnecessary. This revelation resurrects the uncomfortable Vietnam-era notion that our soldiers have been dying for nothing.

As the credibility of the Bush Administration and the intelligence community slowly implodes, a sense of growing frustration emerges: Things could have been so much better for the United States if common sense and truth had prevailed. If our nation had continued hunting al-Quaida and left the Iraqi issue to the United Nations, the world probably would be a lot calmer, our national mood and economy would be healthier, many U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians would be unhurt -- and the threat of terrorism could be waning.

Instead, that queasy, Nixon-era mistrust for government is rearing its ugly head once again and our country is increasingly feared instead of revered by the international community.

Link: http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20040204/opinion/345584.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Wow!

Ithaca NY, I assume? Or Ithaca MI? Either place, this editorial has to have sent out shock waves!

[ithacan]

3. yes, Ithaca New York

upstate New York.

The city itself is progressive (no R's on city council). But the newspaper does not really usually reflect the community, but rather the conservative interests of the corporation.

Like most mainstream media, they've been apologists for Bush since the beginning.

That's why this is such a shock!

[gristy]

2. The sad, sad truth is in this sentence:

If our nation had continued hunting al-Quaida and left the Iraqi issue to the United Nations, the world probably would be a lot calmer, our national mood and economy would be healthier, many U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians would be unhurt -- and the threat of terrorism could be waning.

[FreeperSlayer]

4. Wow! I used to work for Gannett...

...and this IS off-message.

[colonel odis]

5. well, that's one editor whose resume is being e-mailed this morning. n/t

[Deb]

6. I read that too, and another

from the Binghamton Press. (Gannett owned)

"$2.4 trillion and still short"

Regardless of how it's divided -- those arguments are just beginning -- just consider for a moment the sheer size of the federal budget proposed by President Bush this week: $2.4 trillion.


... Republicans griped for years about the Democrats' "tax-and-spend" policies; now the Republicans hold all the reins of power and fiscal conservatives are complaining about the GOP's "borrow-and-spend" tactics as the national deficit now rises right alongside the budget.

more:

http://www.pressconnects.com/today/opinion/stories/op020404s65344.shtml

[BlueEyedSon]

7. "that queasy, Nixon-era mistrust for government is rearing its ugly head "

Pretty much says it all, doesn't it?

[enough]

8. Props to Rep. Hinkley, whoever he is.

"All of the lies and deception are coming home to roost," Ithaca-area Congressman Maurice Hinchey, D-23rd District, correctly observed during a conversation with The Journal editorial board. "We know now that the two rationales we went to war on were both bogus."

[ithacan]

9. Hinchey's great

one of the most progressive reps in congress.