What's My Line?

Robert of Robert's Virtual Soapbox has a very good article on George Bush, and ways in which is isn't necessarily all that different from Saddam Hussein.

From: The Line Blurs....

[...] I have no doubt that Saddam Hussein is an evil man. None. While I believe that the U.S. propaganda machine has portrayed Saddam to be far more dangerous than he actually is, I believe every word that those Iraqi students told me more than a decade ago, and I doubt that much has changed in Iraq. If anything, I suspect, it’s even worse there.

But just as the U.S. propaganda machine has painted Saddam to be more dangerous than he is, the U.S. propaganda machine has painted the Bush regime to be more benevolent than it is.

The simplistic thinking that good Americans are encouraged to adopt is that good is the opposite of bad, and if Saddam Hussein is bad and George W. Bush & Co. oppose Saddam Hussein, then the Bush regime must be good.

Wrong. [...]