Salt Lake City, UT’s mayor Rocky Anderson – an iconoclast by any measure, delivered a scathing speech 2 days ago that simply tore Bush a new a-hole.
Here are some highlights:
• Let no one deny we are patriots. We love our country, we hold dear the values upon which our nation was founded, and we are distressed at what our President, his administration, and our Congress are doing to, and in the name of, our great nation.
• Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.
• A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president.
Please read Mayor Anderson’s entire speech HERE.
6 Comments
+ at 8:16 am
I have to say Salt Lake City is the last place on earth I would expect to read such a speech from a sitting mayor excoriating George Bush so completely.
This is a beautiful speech and brutal in its honesty.
Way to go Mayor Rocky Anderson!
+ at 8:19 am
I like this paragraph:
The principal claim was that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction – biological and chemical weapons – and was seeking to build up a nuclear weapons capability. As we now know, there was nothing – no evidence whatsoever – to support those claims.
But Cheney is still blathering on and on about WMDs in Iraq. Priceless.
+ at 1:05 pm
Thanks, Chris. Just what was needed this morning.
Truth in Salt Lake City
+ at 3:01 pm
[...] Hat tip to my friend Chris at From the Left [...]
+ at 8:52 am
I think the principal claim now is that Saddam Hussein WAS a weapon of mass destruction and its hard to argue that the world is not a better place without him… However at what price? Still the main difference between the Israel Lebanon conflict in 1982 and the present situation is the absents of the concerns from OPEC.
I would say “Look ma” no oil enbargo! Which does of course come at a price of over 2,000 american soldiers.
+ at 9:19 pm
Make that 3,000 and counting… When is enough?… Enough! I think we must just give pause and ask ourselves if we are any closer to capturing Bin Laden. Have we made the world any safer for democracy? Clearly the answer is not simply no.