Sixteen words demand sixteen questions
Aug. 4th, 2003 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusI'm liking Dean more and more.
If calling on the President of the United States to be responsible and answerable to the people of the United States is "too radical", then we need many many more radical people in office.
Howard Dean has a list of sixteen questions that he is calling on President Bush to answer. No rhetoric, barely even any spin, just sixteen questions that any honest man would have answered long before now.
It doesn't include questions about why Powell was instructed to lie to the U.N., using documents that were known to be out of date or plagiarized from a British grad student. Or why the administration is still blocking attempts to view the documentation related to the meetings between Cheney and Kenneth Lay which may have led directly to California's fake "energy crisis" last year, defying three court orders and threatening to arrest process servers who attempted to approach the White House. And why the rules for government contracts were changed to include only prominent Bush administration supporters for contracts rebuilding Iraq. Or why a memo was sent by Rumsfield to the CIA on the same day of the World Trade Center bombing asking them to find a way to tie it to Iraq. Or why, after pushing for harsher laws against underage drinking and drug use in Texas and Florida, those laws were ignored completely when members of George's and Jeb's own families were caught in violation of them. Or any of a thousand other questions I'd like to ask the President.
But it's a good start.
An honest president wouldn't wait for half the population of the United States to sign the petition. He would be eager to present an explanation for any errors or appearances of misdealings, rather than brush them aside with a half-assed apology and launch into a tirade against equal rights for gay people.
If calling on the President of the United States to be responsible and answerable to the people of the United States is "too radical", then we need many many more radical people in office.
Howard Dean has a list of sixteen questions that he is calling on President Bush to answer. No rhetoric, barely even any spin, just sixteen questions that any honest man would have answered long before now.
It doesn't include questions about why Powell was instructed to lie to the U.N., using documents that were known to be out of date or plagiarized from a British grad student. Or why the administration is still blocking attempts to view the documentation related to the meetings between Cheney and Kenneth Lay which may have led directly to California's fake "energy crisis" last year, defying three court orders and threatening to arrest process servers who attempted to approach the White House. And why the rules for government contracts were changed to include only prominent Bush administration supporters for contracts rebuilding Iraq. Or why a memo was sent by Rumsfield to the CIA on the same day of the World Trade Center bombing asking them to find a way to tie it to Iraq. Or why, after pushing for harsher laws against underage drinking and drug use in Texas and Florida, those laws were ignored completely when members of George's and Jeb's own families were caught in violation of them. Or any of a thousand other questions I'd like to ask the President.
But it's a good start.
An honest president wouldn't wait for half the population of the United States to sign the petition. He would be eager to present an explanation for any errors or appearances of misdealings, rather than brush them aside with a half-assed apology and launch into a tirade against equal rights for gay people.
