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February 09, 2004 Wilson, again Joseph Wilson weighs in on the WMD investigation.... “The accountability for this war in Iraq does not lie with (CIA director) George Tenet and the intelligence community,” he said. “It resides with the president of the United States and his war Cabinet advisers.”This, from the man who considered "asking them" to be conclusive evidence that there had been no dealings between Iraq and Niger. The accountability for the decision to go to war certainly does rest with the President....but the investigation is into the intelligence data provided the President. And that responsibility lies with the CIA. This is exactly the sort of mission-creep that I think we have reason to fear out of virtually any investigation of a President. (reference: Whitewater) Instead of looking into the fundamental data, partisans look for any angle they can find to criticise the President. It's going to be a circus. Again. Wilson goes on....(or, I assume it's Wilson) Rove [that MUST be a typo. I assume we should substitute "Wilson" for "Rove"] said he feared that by waging war in Iraq, Washington has squandered a global outpouring of positive feeling toward the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.This is a criticism I simply don't understand. We've squandered an outpouring of positive feelings? What would we have done with them, otherwise? Is there some account with the IMF whereby we can exchange positive feelings for national security? That criticism is very nearly a parody of the "feelings first" stereotype of liberal national security idealism. Unfortunately, it's not. By opening what he called an unnecessary “second front” in the war on terrorism, the United States has made prospects of success “bleaker,” he said.You know, I once bought pesticide to deal with the fleas that had found my dog. I had two choices. 1: I could spray the entire can at the dog. or: 2: I could spray the dog...and other areas in which the fleas lived. I guess I should have chosen the first. Instead I opened an "unnecessary second front" on the fleas. Worked, too, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence. Joseph Wilson kills every last flea on his dog, every time he sprays him down. ......which is about once every two weeks, since all the fleas just go elsewhere for a while. Perhaps there's a parallel there, but let's not thing about it too much. |
I'm very tired of this whole sordid debate. Two good men (Bush and Blair) are ripped to shreds and probed for wrongdoing on a level approaching hysterical persecution simply because they choose to act and do a good thing in removing an unstable tyrant, who - even if he did not have weapons stockpiles- certainly had the will and means to have these weapons in short order (and had used them in the past)
How sick is our society when 2 good men who moved to remove the threat, the tyrant, are hounded, while those who would've gladly left him to cause misery and trouble are seen as being more moral??
I give up. Why bother? It's not worth doing anything anymore. Our "enlightened" society has cancer of the soul. At this rate, we'll doom ourselves faster than the terrorists would.
"And the unjust shall drag the just down with them...."
Posted by: trump at February 9, 2004 02:38 PM
It is constantly amusing to me that folks who seem to have total trouble believing 12 years of credible WMD threat from Iraq have no trouble with other beliefs. Chief among these is their certainty that the presence of an NRA sticker on a car is prima facie evidence that its occupant has multiple WPD (Weapons of Personal Destruction) and is merely awaiting the slightest pretext to hose as many of the innocent general public as they can reach.
Posted by: Stephen at February 9, 2004 03:00 PM