[lbo-talk] AP: "Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts in Speech"

[Michael Dawson]

Sad, because it's wrong:  Bush (and Kerry) glosses over simple facts, not
complex ones.  Example: Richard Clarke's boilerplate observation that
invading Iraq was the biggest gift you could give Al Qaeda.  Nothing
"complex" about that.  Example #2:  Invading Iraq was illegal under
international law.  What's the complexity there?

But, as Cockburn once said, the role of the media is to render simple
information "complex" and incomprehensible.

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Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts in Speech

Fri Sep 3, 4:22 AM ET

	
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - President Bush (news - web sites) glossed
over some complicating realities in Iraq (news - web
sites), Afghanistan (news - web sites) and the home
front in arguing the case Americans are safer and his
opponent cannot deliver. 

[...]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=1&u=/ap/cvn_bush_fact_
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