Bush has a staged chat with troops

[Redleg]

Lets see the Pentagon spokesperson was telling the troops what questions President Bush was going to ask them. Now how is that a bad thing? [/I]

.....seems like some real absense of critical thinking to me , and a complete willingness to believe any crap the media puts out .

Again how is telling the troops what is going to be asked a bad thing? I did not hear in the media link nor did I read in the news report that the soldiers were told what to state - only who was going to answer and what the question was going to be.

Now instead of saying its an absense of critical thinking - try showing where that is a bad thing - or in your words an absense of critical thinking.

What I saw of the clip was pretty standard for the military back in the 1990s. So saying this is an examble of Bush being dishonest with the Media - is just a reach in my opinion.

[Tribesman]

Ah poor Red , two nations divided by a common language and a very different sense of humour
Try reading again what I wrote , in the context of the quotes that I took from various posters in this thread

[Redleg]

Ah poor Red , two nations divided by a common language and a very different sense of humour
Try reading again what I wrote , in the context of the quotes that I took from various posters in this thread

I tried - the context of how you stated it does not make sense to me. But then I could be just over tired from working basically 12 hour days for the last 3 weeks because of our production schedule. When I get this tired my ability to think because soley black and white when reading. Hell I am not even reading anything important this week because of that - or for that matter no trash fiction - known also as Sci-Fi.

Maybe it will make more sense Monday after a long weekend of actually sleeping for more then 5 hours.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Why is it so hard for you guys (Redleg and DA) to accept that Bush doesn't care about the American people?

Why is it so hard for you to accept that he does?

A leader should not be able to get away with lying and decieving the people he's supposed to lead,

No he shouldnt. Thats what the job of the press is. But its also supposed to be fair and truthful. Unfourtunatly the press has its own agenda. Talk about lying to the people.

and it's comments like yours that allow such crap to continue.

Could say the same of yours.

[Redleg]

Why is it so hard for you guys (Redleg and DA) to accept that Bush doesn't care about the American people?

Find an examble better then this one and I might agree with you - however this examble doesn't pass the common sense test having served in the military and watching things just like this occur several times. Under President Bush Sr. and President Clinton. Like I said nothing new - nothing strange - nothing to what your attempting to allude to concerning this examble