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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Saturday, July 09, 2005

"George Bush's little pre-fab war"

Hey Steve: Granted, this can be debatable, but I do consider myself a “thinking person”… Ha! I supported removing Saddam from power in Iraq because he had been sticking his middle finger at us since the first Gulf War… We should have removed him when he broke the 1st cease-fire resolution a few weeks after he agreed to them back in 1991. Anyway, going back to the 90’s, every intel service thought Saddam had chemical & biological weapons… With the events of 9/11 when these 19 hijackers flew the planes into the World Trade Center & the Pentagon, it became more clear than ever that these fanatics would do anything possible to kill as many people as they could… You combine this mentality with Saddam’s hatred of the US, and with the whole world’s belief that Saddam had these WMDs, well, putting myself in Dubya’s shoes, he did the only thing he could do, and that was remove Saddam. It’s not like we went after Saddam immediately after the events of 9/11/01… We didn’t drop the first bomb in Iraq until March, 2003.

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