Thursday, May 29, 2003
CalPundit has started to assemble a list of the cheap excuses being made to excuse the fact that, whoops, Saddam didnt ahve any WMD's after all! Heres what he has so far:
Lots of people: Dammit, it wasn't about WMD, it was about liberation.
Ariel Sharon and Richard Perle (among others): Saddam surreptitiously moved the WMD to Syria before the war.
Jim Lacey: Saddam's underlings never built any WMD, but they hid this from Saddam out of fear.
Kenneth Adelman: Saddam didn't have any WMD but launched a massive disinformation campaign to convince everyone that he did.
Donald Rumsfeld: Saddam destroyed all his WMD before the war.
let me add a few more:
Michael Schrage in the Washington post said it was because saddam was "ambigouos" about whether or not he had them. And that was enough to invade.
Kathleen Parker in the Chicago Tribune says saddam could have had them estroyed in the desert and then killed hte troops to cover up the crime (no kidding, she really said this)
My favorite is Peter rooks from the Heritage Foundation who said that Saddam was using France and Germany as "dupes" to stall the US so he could destroy them and avoid being indicted by the U.N.
That one gets points for sheer balls.
Coming up next. Top ten excuses Hitler used to invade Austria….
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
He's got my vote. And he'd kick ass.
"I think since people are living much longer ... the 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime," Clinton said. The former president said such a change probably wouldn't apply to him but would benefit future generations. "There may come a time when we elect a president at age 45 or 50, and then 20 years later the country comes up against the same kind of problems the president faced before," he said. "People would like to bring that man or woman back but they would have no way to do so."
This administration is amazing. From todays washington post quoting administration officials:
There are always going to be policy differences, some larger than others, but the way in which they opposed that policy was beyond the pale," the official said. Recounting the administration's view of the run-up to Iraq, the official said, "They endangered NATO, they implicitly threatened smaller countries that their [European Union] membership was in danger, they were insulting to other countries by saying they were behaving badly."
They endangered NATO???????
Half of NATO opposed the invasion. And saying that France was being insuliting?
I need some freedom fries to calm me down. That'll just show how nonpetty we can be....
