November 2005

November 11, 2005

Non-Sequitur Of The Moment

Q It was, however, the weapons of mass destruction that was used to justify the urgency, and that, of course, is what my question dealt with.

MR. HADLEY: The intelligence was clear in terms of the weapons of mass destruction, and after 9/11, what we learned was that the coincidence between a rogue regime that was -- supported terror and pursued weapons of mass destruction was a serious risk that the United States needed to deal with. Having tried for 12 years and 17 resolutions to address it through diplomacy, and continuing to try to address it through diplomacy, trying to maintain the international consensus, once it was clear that that international consensus had broken down, the President had no alternative.

Um...huh? The intelligence was "clear"? He's probably right: it was crystal clear, to anyone (in practice, about 90% of the World's population) bothering to look at the facts, that Iraq was not in possession of WMD.

But, even if the Bush Administration had honestly (don't laugh) perceived the "intelligence" to "clearly" indicate that Saddam was in possession of WMD; you'd think that Hadley could at least preface his sentence with a "We really, truly, cross-our-hearts thought that".

That the Clinton Administration used the same lies as did the Bush Administration; and that the Democrats by-and-large fell all over themselves to endorse Dubya's war (even while 90% of the World's population was strongly opposed) only proves that the Democrats are even larger fuckholes that the Republicans. So? Tell us something we don't know.

But the last sentence is the true prize: "once it was clear that [nobody else, save fuckhole Blair supported his war] the President had no alternative [but to go it alone -- along with fuckhole Blair, and, of course, The Poles].

But Hadley was just warming up. He just a few minutes later assured himself the doublethink-of-the-year award:

I mean it is a shocking attack. In one of the hotels -- the President talked to the King of Jordan this morning -- one of the hotels, there was a wedding going on. And a large number of the casualties are small children. The bride and the groom each lost large portions of their family. I mean, this -- it shows the brutality of this enemy.

Methinks, incidentally, that it truly is doublethink we're dealing with here. That Hadley, in other words, truly does believe that when the "Multinational Force" blows up wedding parties, and kills and maims large numbers of small children; that it does so in the service of "spreading freedom".

But, who knows? Maybe he's just a fucking hypocrite. Either way, he's a fucking fuckhole.