I originally posted this up over at Mr Damian the other day, but it actually sits better here. The comments still remain prescient...
I was somewhat struck by the irony of Bush's flag-waving, gallery playing, comments on Monday - when he effectively called Saddam a coward for running away when the going got tough.
Is this the same President Bush who did much the same thing following 9/11?
Whilst the attack on the WTO was clearly horrific, it's not quite the same as an illegal insurgence into a foreign country with thousands of troops, tanks, Cruise missiles etc.
Yet the fact remains that when 9/11 happened Bush ran - not showing his face in NY for several days and being kept under cover by the Secret Service at undisclosed locations across the US. Despite the fact that this was just 4 planes (including the Pentagon one and the other that crashed nr Camp David,) not a whole army from two NATO countries...
So, was Bush's rhetoric the other day a little hypocritical then?
What do you think?
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