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4/09/2003 10:37:00 PM | Timothy Regime change: Bush just needs to change his ideologies of mass destruction... In September of last year, Josh Marshall noted that President Bush had this interesting interpretation of the meaning of the phrase 'regime change': If [Saddam] were to meet all the conditions of the United Nations, the conditions that I've described very clearly in terms that everybody can understand, that in itself will signal the regime has changed ...Bush was willing to say the term 'regime change' did not by definition mean that the head of the regime had to leave, but that the regime had to at least change its behavior. I mention the quote cited by Marshall because if Bush can stretch the meaning of regime change so far, how can GOP political operatives and pundits automatically assume what John Kerry meant or must have meant when he called for 'regime change' in the U.S.? If we use Bush's above quoted definition, then perhaps regime change in the U.S. need only involve Bush repealing his tax cuts, restoring civil liberties, and having a coherent, sane, foreign policy not directed by neo-cons (and a few other little things). But all the evidence of the past few years shows that Bush will not change his his ways and we do not want prolonged tests of Bush's ideology, where he plays hide-and-seek by dishing out little bits of compassionate conservatism. I say hold the elections as planned. See also thiscriticism of Kerry's comments. perma link |
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