September 21st, 2006
The good folks at Think Progress have a video compilation of administration officials asserting an Iraq – Al Qaeda link. The clips are from the days after a Senate Intelligence Committee report refuted the connection. Sometimes you just have to watch and listen to these jackasses in order to spot all the hypocrisy and lying. [...]
September 17th, 2006
In a radio interview last week, Secretary Defense Donald Rumsfeld introduced a new rationale for the invasion of Iraq: high gas prices. Rumsfeld said, “If Saddam Hussein were still in power in Iraq, he would be rolling in petrol dollars. Think of the price of oil today. He would have so much money.” Well, aren’t [...]
September 12th, 2006
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted Saddam that had a “relationship” because Zarqawi was in the country. Snow refused to “go into the vagaries of the Senate report.”
This is the equivalent of saying that the United States government had a “relationship” with unibomber Ted Kaczynski because he was “operating” in the US.
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August 1st, 2006
It’s about time one of these guys came to their senses and actually looked at the overall picture of the situation in Iraq. Senator Chuck Hagel, who by the way is a Vietnam combat veteran, could not hold on to the popular neoconservative illusion any longer and had to speak the truth. As someone who [...]