President Bush attacks his critics... again

US President George W. Bush says critics of his are caving into 'terrorist propaganda'. How does he expect to make ANY intellectual and/or rational friends (with voters, and for political capital, that is) with this kind of attutude. Just recently, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that critics were also bad, and Bush has not refrained from questioning any critics in the past. Without the free press, which Bush & Co also insult, and criticism, the US would not be a democracy, would it? How can we spread it then? See this post for more background.

He must really not want people to see the whole NIE report (how classified could it be? just release it already!), or else the people he thinks support the 'terrorists' would have even more 'propaganda' (he thinks of many facts that way, you know). It was funny when the mainstream US media was going bonkers (a word which, for some reason, my dictionary does not recognize) over the president's 60th health check-up earlier this year, but why didn't they push for a psych evaluation too?

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