Wednesday, June 02, 2004

 
CONDOLEEZZA RICE IS AN ANTI-WAR PROTESTOR?
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I was watching Inside Politics on CNN today, and Judy Woodruff asked how she could be sure that Iraq had turned a corner (i.e., and are ready to assume sovereignty). In her answer, Condoleezza Rice said "The Iraqis don't like occupation any more than we would like occupation, and it is time for that occupation to end."

She sounds like an anti-war activist to me! Where was that thinking when the US decided to invade, and we were promised that they would greet us with open arms? This really re-enforced my impression of an administration that will say anything and twist any fact to make it support their viewpoint.

This broader statement is my number one complaint about the Bush administration.

For example, when the economy was obviously getting worse, that proved that we need to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, in order to help the economy. But when some data showed the economy improving, that proved that we need to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, because they are working. When victory in Iraq seemed at first to have been easy and quick with a minimal loss of life, that proved that we did the right thing to invade. But when attacks against Americans increased after the "end of major combat operations", that proved that the enemies of freedom were getting more desperate, and we therefore had done the right thing to invade. Obviously, if we had found proof of WMD before the war, that would have proven their existence and that we needed to invade. But when we didn't, we were assured that the absence of a smoking gun was because you can't see the smoke from guns that are hidden-- in other words, our failure to find WMD before the war proved that they were well-hidden, and that we needed to invade.

It's like that with them, with everything. Like words are just weapons that can be pointed in any direction with identical effect, and are totally disconnected from the truth or even from meaning.

This is The Official Record. 4:49 PM
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