July 11, 2003
Unravelling
It's a feeling Red Sox fans know well. Something goes wrong, something else happens to make it worse...and before you know it, things are spiralling out of anyone's control towards disaster. And it may be happening to the Teflon Bush Administration. While Bush is bopping around Africa, playing with elephants and relocating Senegalese residents to a football ground, there's trouble brewing.
First, CBS is reporting that Bush knew some of the Iraqi-weapon claims he made during the State of the Union address, particularly that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger, were bogus. Of course, the Administration is trying to circle the wagons, with Colin Powell telling CNN,
"To single out this one statement having to do with an intelligence picture that wasn't entirely clear with respect to what he might have been trying to do with respect to acquiring uranium in Africa, I think is quite an overstatement and quite an overreaction to this one line. The president wasn't in any way trying to mislead."
Boy, so much for "the buck stops here", huh? Meanwhile, Minister of Information Ari Fleischer put in a serious bid for Quote of the Year with this gem reported in the NY Times:
"I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are."
Really? In related stories, those of you who don't believe in Santa Claus must now go to the North Pole and prove he isn't there, and anyone who is satisfied that Oswald acted alone must go out and unravel the conspiracy. This would be comical if it weren't for the fact that over 200 American troops and untold Iraqis have been killed in this farce. And Bush is playing with elephants. At least LBJ had the decency to be photographed head down and weeping over his decision to send American boys to die in Vietnam.
On another front, there is soon coming an "explosive report" about who knew what when about the 9/11/01 attacks. It's too bad that this ancient history will (may) knock Laci Peterson and Sausagegate off the front pages, but it will be interesting to note how much of the bad info Bush and Co. were able to supress.
Are the wheels coming off the Bush bus? Howard Dean's site has a petition asking any cheats and liars in government to step down. I signed it right away, even though it probably means I'll soon be relocated to a local football ground.
(Many links and research on this came from Eschaton and Daily Kos.)
Posted by michaelf at July 11, 2003 12:16 AM | TrackBack
