Wednesday, October 08, 2003
( 3:19 PM )
Lowering the Bar Even Further
Subtitle: Come On, Drink the Kool-Aid!
You thought it couldn't be done - finding an even weaker reason to go to war. But alas, we must do away with our expectations of logic from this administration. We now have the most stupid excuse ever for Iraq, via Condoleeza Rice today:
"And let there be no mistake, right up to the end,
Saddam Hussein continued to harbor ambitions to
threaten the world with weapons of mass
destruction and to hide his illegal weapons activity,"
she told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
He harbored ambitions to threaten the world??!!! THANK GOD we're sacrificing two soldiers a day to maintain the chaos of military occupation in that country! It is SOOOO worth it!
Sigh.
For greater insight and much better commentary on this, please see Billmon and Daily Kos.
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