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06/03/2003 Archived Entry: "'Credibility gap, anyone?'"
'Credibility gap, anyone?'
There are those, including Paul Krugman, who say that running a country to war through lies and deceit is a bigger scandal than Watergate, Iran-Contra, or Teapot Dome. Maybe this will be the one that sticks to The Thug Cabal. If it is, they'll be thinking about prison time instead of re-election by this time next year. People are beginning to pay attention.
When all three major U.S. newsweeklies - Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report - run major features on the same day on possible government lying, you can bet you have the makings of a major scandal.
And when the two most important outlets of neo-conservative opinion--The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal--come out on the same day with lead editorials spluttering outrage about suggestions of government lying, you can bet that things are going to get very hot as summer approaches in Washington. The controversy over whether the administration of President George W. Bush either exaggerated or lied about evidence that it said it had about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion has mushroomed over the past week.
"This is potentially very serious," said one Congressional aide. "If it's shown we went to war because of intelligence that was 'cooked' by the administration, heads will have to roll--and not just little heads, big ones."
Replies: somebody speaks up.
Okay, my brief, awkward experiment with optimism is now over.
If God came down from heaven and proclaimed Bush an evil man and a Spawn of Satan, I have no doubt that Americans would declare God to be anti-American and Bill O'Reilly would shout, "shut up, shut up, cut off his mike!" Thereupon, Knucklehead's approval rating would go from 70% to 75%.
Sorry, Bush is unstoppable in '04. There is no force in the known universe that would make it otherwise.
Pessimism is like mainlining heroin: it's so bad for you, but it feels so good.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/03/2003 12:30 PM NY
