Hold Them Accounable

I have blogged frequently on the lack of responsibility and accountability in American politcs today and its application to the Bush Administration's approach to the War on Terrorism -- more specifically the Administration's rather inept handling of the post-invasion occupation and nation-building in Iraq and the defensive, obfuscating, equivocating and evasive response to the 9/11 Commission. Here's a site that captures and develops a lot more of these thoughts, from a partisan perspective by The Fight Back Campaign, Inc. at HoldThemAccountable2004.org.

Now I would like to ask Lee at Right-Thinking from the Left Coast and Carl from No Oil For Pacifists -- both of whom I read, link and generally (well, maybe grudingly) respct -- to explain why these are not legitimate questions and why Dubya is runnning far away from them. That Kerry is a flip-flopper who idiotically has not counter-attacked with the same claims for Bush is not an answer, by the way. But it is hypocritical for Bush to maintain that he has been consistent or thoughtful in his Iraq policy and that "standing tall" merits relection. Real leaders accept responsbility, especially for errors, instead of painting a rose-colored indifference to reality in sound bite rhetoric. George W. wouldn't -- or worse, perhaps couldn't -- even answer a question about whether he would concede "any mistakes" at his one and only news conferece on the subject.

 Posted by glenn