What a nice way to start the morning. :)
Apr. 2nd, 2004 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsychePin the Tale on the Donkey
The numerous excuses the White House used to justify the invasion--a "grave" and "gathering" threat posed by Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction, planting the seed of democracy in the Middle East, avenging September 11---have all been belied by subsequent events. Now, as Slaughtergate crumbles down upon them, top administration prevaricators are mounting one final line of defense: the ridiculous claim that everyone believed the war was a splendid idea.
[...] "I wasn't giving the world bad information," Powell asserted in a separate interview with state-controlled Fox News. "I was giving the world the information that we had at the time we had it."
Actually, we didn't "all" think Iraq had stockpiles of dangerous weapons "at the time." Quite the opposite: most people thought it didn't. And Powell thought the "information" he gave the world was, in his own words, "bullshit." At the time.
[...] Democratic Senators, liberal writers, the United Nations, former arms inspectors--they all said that invading Iraq was stupid and unjustifiable. Now that everyone else has been proven right, Mr. Bush, feel free to lie and dissemble--God knows we're used to it--but don't you dare try to stick us with the blame for your screw-up.
The numerous excuses the White House used to justify the invasion--a "grave" and "gathering" threat posed by Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction, planting the seed of democracy in the Middle East, avenging September 11---have all been belied by subsequent events. Now, as Slaughtergate crumbles down upon them, top administration prevaricators are mounting one final line of defense: the ridiculous claim that everyone believed the war was a splendid idea.
[...] "I wasn't giving the world bad information," Powell asserted in a separate interview with state-controlled Fox News. "I was giving the world the information that we had at the time we had it."
Actually, we didn't "all" think Iraq had stockpiles of dangerous weapons "at the time." Quite the opposite: most people thought it didn't. And Powell thought the "information" he gave the world was, in his own words, "bullshit." At the time.
[...] Democratic Senators, liberal writers, the United Nations, former arms inspectors--they all said that invading Iraq was stupid and unjustifiable. Now that everyone else has been proven right, Mr. Bush, feel free to lie and dissemble--God knows we're used to it--but don't you dare try to stick us with the blame for your screw-up.