This is a jawdropper

[pegkerr]

Cheney is just unbelievable. Now he is going around saying that the weapons report that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war.

wtf? I am just flabbergasted by this. What weird alternate reality do these people live in?

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[silme.livejournal.com]

Sky News aired the report to the US Senate live last night here in England. I was nodding so many times. It is amazing how Westerners -- and I'm including the British as well -- continue to misread other parts of the world. It makes perfect sense that had he any weapons, they would have been pointed at Iran, not Britain, not the US. We have such an ethnocentric view of the world that continues to destroy other countries with other mindsets and philosophies.

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

I imagine that if I had a little bit of whatever he's smoking, I'd see the world in colors that don't actually exist.

Iran has WMD. They proudly announce that they have WMD. But we attack Iraq. We argue that we don't need the U.N. Security Council to approve our actions with Iraq and then we say we want to depend on them to handle Iran.

Insane.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Bremner, Bird and Fortune is a wonderful British comedy show on Channel 4 (with new episodes on at 8 PM Sundays) that I wish more anti-Bush Americans could see. They are absolutely brilliant.

Anyway, last year, they had a skit in which the prime minister or president or something or other of this obscure little former part of the Soviet Union was being interviewed by a British journalist. You see, he was travelling around all of Europe, making it known that he was out to buy WMD. Why on earth, asked the interviewer, would he want people to know that?

Well, you see, he replied, the US knows that North Korea has WMD, and they're not attacking them. However, they are attacking Iraq, which doesn't have them. Therefore, we figure if we let it be known we have weapons, they won't ever come after us.

Makes sense in a odd way, and it certainly made me laugh. I'm so glad BB&F are back on; we need them to help get through these trying times. They did a wonderful parody of the first presidential debate to start off last Sunday's show. Yes, this is a British show. They attack Bush AND Blair.

[joel-rosenberg.livejournal.com]

Actually, Iran is denying that they have WMD, or any intentions of getting same; the party line there is that their nuclear program is entirely peaceful, and directed only toward making peaceful nuclear power plants.

Don't believe them? I don't, either.

[gwynnega]

The mind reels...

[fangexploring.livejournal.com]

And I thought it was bad after Rumsfeld(sp?)'s slip and then back-tracked.
Why oh why do people still vote for them?!? *headdesk*

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

It's pretty darn clear that they are just trying to cover their asses for the decision to go to war, and are failing miserably. If there is anyone who cannot see this, I just pray pray pray pray pray Kerry wins. Call me pessimistic but sadly I think Bush has a good chance of being re-elected.

With all the garbage Bush has produced in the last four years (No Child Left Behind--yet cuts funding for schools?!, lost jobs, screwing over the environment, oh the list goes on!) I don't see how any sane person can actually think he has done good things. But then again this world is a crazy place.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

The magical doublespeak world.

When will the Republicans realize that they shouldn't read Orwell as a "Do It Yourself" book?

When will the Republican-voting public realize that they should actually focus on what's being said by everyone?

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

"If you keep saying it loud enough and long enough, people will believe it."

That's the Bush/Cheney logic.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It's worked pretty well so far.

B

[joel-rosenberg.livejournal.com]

That's an accurate description of what many politicians do. Note Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" -- there's still some people who believe that, believe it or not. (I guess it was "seared -- seared" into their memories, too.) And then there's his lie about General Shinseki being fired. (For those who came in late, General Shinseki, USArmy Chief of Staff, retired on schedule about a month ago.) Or the $200 billion spent in Iraq (you'd think the $80 billion would be a significant margin of error even for somebody married to Teresa). Etc.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Now I will forever associate Cheney with Wormtongue. Horribly accurate.

[whapnoggin.livejournal.com]

Does that mean he'll stab Bush someday?

Actually, I'd think it might be the other way around. "You made me do it," hisses Bush....

[joel-rosenberg.livejournal.com]

What weird alternate reality do these people live in?
Probably one where the whole report matters.