{"id":1638,"date":"2005-01-16T17:01:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-16T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T00:01:27","slug":"bush-election-win-rules-out-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/16\/bush-election-win-rules-out-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush: Election win rules out accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Department of Creating Your Own Reality:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/bushdumb.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=228,height=148,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bushdumb\" title=\"Bushdumb\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/bushdumb.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"97\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A12450-2005Jan15.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Bush said <\/a>the public&#8217;s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had an accountability moment, and that&#8217;s called the 2004 elections,&#8221; Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. &#8220;The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s change that last sentence from Bushian Fantasy to Reality As We Know It On This Planet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><S>The American people <\/S> Of 53% of the eligible voters in the US, faced with a choice between two warmongering authoritarian statists, 51%, most of whom do not realize that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden are different people,  <S>listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.&#8221;<\/S> chose George W. Bush for various reasons, many of them based on a raft of lies floated by the Rovian Election Juggernaut and the Republican Noise Machine.  The other 49% attemted to hold Bush accountable for launching an immoral and illegal invasion and killing tens of thousands of Iraqis and over a thousand Americans for reasons that turned out to be total fabrications,  but were defeated by  118,000 votes in Ohio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small><em>Bush photo ripped from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radgeek.com\/gt\/2005\/01\/06\/in_their\" target=\"_blank\">Rad Geek.<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Department of Creating Your Own Reality: President Bush said the public&#8217;s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath. &#8220;We had an accountability moment, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}