Bush's Propaganda Machine Can't Hide Wealth of Bad News
by Scott Lindlaw, AP, Sierra Times.com
YARDLEY, Pa.
– The presidency comes with powerful tools that can help incumbents
keep their jobs: a mighty public-relations machine, a bully pulpit, a
famous airplane. Yet George W. Bush has been powerless to halt a recent
tide of bad news, from surging violence and missing weapons in Iraq, to
missteps by his own campaign, to a potentially damaging new probe by
his own FBI .
…In a
Friday speech, Kerry hoped to stoke the latest revelation: news that
the FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded
no-bid military contracts to Halliburton Co., formerly headed by Vice
pResident Dick Cheney.
…For
four straight days, Bush had been dogged by a report that nearly 400
tons of explosives disappeared from Iraq's Al-Qaqaa military
installation. Bush aides winced when former New York City Mayor Rudy
Giuliani, a frequent Bush campaign partner and surrogate, said the
troops in Iraq, not Bush, bore the responsibility for searching for the
explosives.
There was more:
The U.N. nuclear agency said U.S. officials were warned about the
vulnerability of explosives stored at the installation after another
facility was looted.
Minneapolis
ABC affiliate KSTP-TV, which had a crew embedded with the 101st
Airborne Division during the war, released videotape that it said
showed soldiers examining explosives at the massive Al-Qaqaa facility
nine days after the fall of Baghdad. The video [undermines] Bush's
suggestion the explosives were looted before the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq.
Other “headlines” hurting Bush:
–More than 1,100 U.S. service members have died since Bush launched is Iraq war in March, 2003
–100,000 Iraqis are dead because of Bush's war
–Bush will ask Congress for another $75 billion to finance his wars on top of the $215 billion already allocated
–The Bush campaign was caught using a doctored photo in a campaign ad
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