Huffington Post: Bush at fault for “tense atmosphere”
Ignore the madman from Tehran or his friendly cohort Hugo Chavez. It is George Bush who is at fault for the “increasingly tense atmosphere” because he refused to meet with Little Hitler at the UN.
The Iranian President accused the US of using terrorism as a “pretext for the continued presence of foreign forces in Iraq” and criticized the UN for standing “idly by” during the violence in Lebanon last summer. The increasingly tense atmosphere was heightened by Bush’s refusal to meet with Ahmadinejad at any time this week, even though both are attending the UN assembly.
[source: The Huffington Post Daily Brief, September 20, 2006]
Would The Huffington Post have blamed Bill Clinton for not meeting with Saddam Hussein? Doubtful. After all, this is the same site that, completely consumed by Bush hatred (BDS), published columns by a guy ruminating that another 9/11-style terror attack would be good for the country.
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Are the crusades a myth invented by Islam?
Did you accidentally click on the wrong post to leave that comment?
Do you think that the crusades of the middle ages are responsible for the “increasingly tense atmosphere” perhaps?
Someone could use a lesson in reading comprehension. That someone is you, doug.
John,
You are, of course, correct. Although I’m not the one in need of a lesson in reading comprehension. That someone would be The Huffington Post editor who wrote the email.
I’ll assume that your reading comprehension is impeccable. Hence, you obviously didn’t bother to read the text of The Huffington Post email or visit the original Guardian article. Had you taken the time to do so, you would have realized that it was The Huffington Post which injected this nonsense, saying that the “increasingly tense atmosphere was heightened by Bush’s refusal to meet with Ahmadinejad.”
In fact, here is what the Guardian said:
Now, what say you?
Even using the Guardian’s own story (oh, that English bastion of neo-conservative drivel!) you can’t find any suggestion that somehow a break in longstanding U.S. policy not to meet with the leader of Iran had heightened the “increasingly tense” atmosphere.
The U.S. and Iran are in a tense stand-off because…ummm…oh yeah, as the Guardian points out: Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Of course, maybe Bush is responsible for that, too.
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