Monday, July 19, 2004
Dispatch from Paradise
Obviously our vacation has gone on a little longer than expected.
That's a great thing for 201k, though we appreciate the many emails urging us to get back on the stick. Soon.
In the meantime here's something a Poor Reader plucked from the Wall Street Journal, that bastion of the liberal media:
Look, let's be frank here: it's time for knee-jerk supporters of the Bush administration to start to honest-up a bit, and consider the possibility -- believed here from the start -- that they took the U.S. to war in Iraq not because that country had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Queda but because they KNEW IT DID NOT.
Get it? They went to Iraq not because it was a threat but because it was the EASIEST TARGET IN THE REGION.
The question all Americans should be asking is why? What were the reasons for invading Iraq that they couldn't tell Americans?
Why didn't they trust the public?
That's a great thing for 201k, though we appreciate the many emails urging us to get back on the stick. Soon.
In the meantime here's something a Poor Reader plucked from the Wall Street Journal, that bastion of the liberal media:
"The anticipated disclosure by the 9/11 Commission of contacts between Iran and al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks could ratchet up pressure on the White House to explain its subsequent emphasis on a threat from Iraq despite apparently far greater evidence of Iran's terrorist dealings...Which, of course, is what a lot of people were saying before the invasion.
Disclosures on an Iranian link to al Qaeda have been expected. Chairman Thomas Kean, former Republican New Jersey governor, said in a June 20 television interview that "we believe in the commission that there were a lot more active contacts frankly with Iran and with Pakistan than there were with Iraq.""
Look, let's be frank here: it's time for knee-jerk supporters of the Bush administration to start to honest-up a bit, and consider the possibility -- believed here from the start -- that they took the U.S. to war in Iraq not because that country had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Queda but because they KNEW IT DID NOT.
Get it? They went to Iraq not because it was a threat but because it was the EASIEST TARGET IN THE REGION.
The question all Americans should be asking is why? What were the reasons for invading Iraq that they couldn't tell Americans?
Why didn't they trust the public?
