Funhouse Mirror: Looking At America With The New York Times

Winter Patriot
Against all indications, the NYT attributes the actions of the Bush administration to "panic and ideology". It's clear that neither Bush nor Cheney have panicked -- on 9/11 or ever since. They've been sitting quietly, watching the universe unfold -- right into their laps! And it's even clearer that their ideology plays a heavy role in what they have done. So why talk about panic? For that matter, why talk about "this new enemy" without trying to identify it? The Bush administration took less than a day to decide who was to be held responsible for 9/11, less than a month to start bombing Afghanistan, less than two months to pass the enormous and egregious PATRIOT Act, and more than a year to empower a whitewash disguised as an investigation. What does that tell you? The administration was (and still is) heavily populated by members of an extremist group which called for a cataclysmic attack on America, in order to enable their radical agenda, just before the 2000 election....
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