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06/14/2003 Archived Entry: "The Weasel Administration..."
The Weasel Administration...
So I'm reading this article about how the administration is trying to defend the now-proven-as-bogus claim that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material from Nigeria, and I read this:
After Bush repeated the British claim in his State of the Union address in January, the United Nations sought U.S. documentation. The purported Iraq-Niger letters were turned over to the United Nations, which found them to be forged.
Time out. I'm struck with a thought - why did they wait until after the SOTU? Think how different things might have been if the UN had debunked this lie before the SOTU.
In retrospect, officials said, it would have been better to have left the uranium claim out of the president's speech, even though the speech was fact-checked by the CIA and other agencies. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday the report was not central to the president's case that Iraq had prohibited weapons and programs.
Those dissembling bastards. Although Rice is right to a point - the nuclear threat allegations weren't 'central' to the case. But what's really pretty fucked up is that none of the points of Bush's 'case' were 'central' - they were a series of lies that when listed together, turned into one of the biggest lies ever foisted upon the people of any nation.
And as this plays out, you'll brobably hear that every part of Bush's 'case' will be declared 'not central' to the case - what was spun as incontrovertible evidence before the fact will be spun as a series of inconsequential points afterward.
Replies: 2 people speak up
Blah3, once again you've missed the point entirely. We did it for the children, for the poor children of Iraq.
And besides, you’ve grossly over-estimated the attention span of most Americans. The Iraq thing is yesterday’s news. The hot item for the next 15 minutes is that exciting sequel to Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”: Hillary’s “Living History.”
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/14/2003 10:11 AM NY
Now, now, of course we did it for the children - having their Koran kissin' kin blown away before their eyes will show those Eyeracki kids the error of not supporting our efforts to free them - and now our kids (unless they have the curse of being born to the top 3% income group) will be given the chance to raise BILLIONS to pay for it. Bush lied, people died - that's bringing Christian family values to the White House?
Posted by Jess Wonderin @ 06/14/2003 01:00 PM NY
