Laura bush said this in a CNN interview I read just a moment ago - "It's a different war than our country has ever faced. The enemy can make a big show on television like they did for the bloody last month we had in Iraq by blowing themselves up a lot of times along with other people. But our success is not so easy to see. But the fact is that we are succeeding."
Ok - so she didn't say anything else in the article about their successes - it's easy to say those words "we are succeeding" but what does that statement mean when you have nothing to say to back it up? It's empty words.
They keep saying this over and over and over again and it doesn't add up because they are showing absolutely no proof of what they are succeeding at let alone even saying what they are succeeding at even without proof. Are they just playing a superficial game of words to try to convince people they are on the right track - and if so who would believe them?
2006-10-27 04:28:19 · 8 answers · asked by Earthy 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/26/laura.bush/index.html
2006-10-27 04:29:25 · update #1
They know that if you repeat a simple saying often enough, people will believe it's true. It will stick in their heads, like bad lyrics.
2006-10-27 04:30:33 · answer #1 · answered by TxSup 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You might just consider trusting those Americans who are experienced and in a position to know everything that is going on. What war experience has Hilary C. and Nancy P. and the others who are saying America is failing in the War on Terror? What military branch did they ever join, and what military college did they go to?
I check many sources of "news" every day. There are many good reports coming out of Iraq. I just heard that the oil production is now above the level that existed before the war. I also heard there are many millionaires in Iraq now.
The best and most obvious result is that the terrorists have been drawn into Iraq by the scores, where they are getting killed by the scores. At least, we haven't yet had more attacks here in the US. This is no accident.
2006-10-27 11:49:40 · answer #2 · answered by doot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All corrupt governments like to disseminate false information to the public. Only in a true democracy with true democratic leaders is propoganda a scorned tool.
Consider, whenever we invade a country led by a totalitarian regime. They could have 5 soldiers, all dead, and the enemy always gets on TV and says, "We are defeating the American pigs."
The fact is, that's exactly who and what are leaders are now. We embrace propaganda. In fact, without it, would they even have been elected?
But back to the point of your question, they succeed at convincing americans that they are successful, and therefore are the best party to rule. They have succeeded in using Iraq as a spending shield to run up huge deficits that will be transferred burdens on the middle class, thereby keeping them in their place and helping the wealthy get wealthier. They have succeeded in using Iraq to eliminate basic freedoms to give the government complete power over the people of America, and rewrite the Constitution in the eyes of Jesus. They have succeeded in using Iraq as a boost to Presidential powers, making him a wartime president with unlimited restraints, unburdened by that pesky "constitution". They have succeeded in placing fear in everyday Americans, so that they are afraid to change the political power of America when they go to the polls.
Make no doubt, Iraq is a huge success!
2006-10-27 11:33:33 · answer #3 · answered by thehiddenangle 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
of course it's a big success for the republicans. haliburton and other corporations have made a killing from the Iraqi oil trust funds and American taxpayers, often without doing anything or supplying anything. Iraq is no longer a military threat to Israel and it's scared the hell out of other Muslim countries who are doing what there told, for now.
2006-10-27 11:35:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it is simply cowardice that George Walker Bush has to hide behind his wife's skirts.
I remember another instance when Ms. Laura made a remarkable statement; after her twin daughters were caught using fake I.D. to get into pick-up bars and to drink themseves into drunken stupors, Ms. Laura said "I wish the news media would leave my family alone."
The fact that she doesn't know how to keep her daughters from breaking the law is the media's fault?
Could it be that she was afraid that the news media would bring her past (The killing of her ex-boyfriend) to the American public's attention?
2006-10-27 11:45:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up until Nov. 7th they were succeeding at staying in office.
Expect a change in message from them after that.
2006-10-27 11:42:42 · answer #6 · answered by Steve 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Succeeding. Winning. Victory. If we were any of these the insurgent attacks would be decreasing no?
2006-10-27 11:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by notme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spin. They have to at least appear to be moving in the right direction (even if they aren't), especially 2 weeks before midterm elections.
2006-10-27 11:31:16 · answer #8 · answered by jim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋