Saturday, September 20, 2003
On the Other Hand, Maybe There's No Connection Between Iraq and 9/11
Well, our withering verbal attack of last Tuesday must have shamed the Bush administration into admitting that there was no evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorists of 9/11. That'll teach them.
They're changing their story now and hoping people will believe they were always saying there was no connection -- and they might get away with it, given the media's craven reluctance to contradict them with anything like the truth, despite the voluminous video tape evidence that exists. As Fox News said this week in response to Christine Amanapour, hey, better to be a foot soldier for the Bush administration than to tell the truth. Or something like that.
In the off chance the media suddenly sprouts integrity, the administration will fall back on the second-to-last last refuge of scoundrels: grammatical parsing of their words. We've seen plenty of that already.
Which is why we loved one particular "slogan" that's buzzing around the net in an email titled something like, "Bush 2004 slogans":
"Bush/Cheney '04 -- Because in your heart you know that technically they're not lying".
Hilarious.
They're changing their story now and hoping people will believe they were always saying there was no connection -- and they might get away with it, given the media's craven reluctance to contradict them with anything like the truth, despite the voluminous video tape evidence that exists. As Fox News said this week in response to Christine Amanapour, hey, better to be a foot soldier for the Bush administration than to tell the truth. Or something like that.
In the off chance the media suddenly sprouts integrity, the administration will fall back on the second-to-last last refuge of scoundrels: grammatical parsing of their words. We've seen plenty of that already.
Which is why we loved one particular "slogan" that's buzzing around the net in an email titled something like, "Bush 2004 slogans":
"Bush/Cheney '04 -- Because in your heart you know that technically they're not lying".
Hilarious.
