Milo the quote you seem to be rebutting has to do with knowledge of what someone else is going to do. Short of psychic phenomena or voodoo, that is. You would rebut this with a list of assertions of weapons capabilities from the White House web site! Surely you understand that this is no more a rebuttal to my point that is Mrs. Bush’s grocery list. The question isn’t what or whether Goddam Hussein has weapons, the question is what will he do with them. For more than ten years, he has done nothing with them whatever. Yet Fearless Leader, and you, claim some special certainty, some prescience that he is just about to. He is a madman who cannot be deterred by the clear and obvious fact that an attack on America is suicide. And yet no attack has been made.
This is a contradiction that neither you, nor he, has addressed in any meaningful way, other than to hint darkly the he is somehow connected with the horror of 9/11. The utter lack of any such evidence does not faze him, his certainty surpasseth all understanding, and any need for facts.
Indeed, as recently reported, when the CIA reported this paucity of evidence, he instructed Rumsfeld to conduct another investigation. Presumably, this will have more agreeable results.
Then he has the temerity to flaunt as irrefutable evidence (“I don’t know what more proof you need”) a report that did not even exist! Not only are we lied to, we are lied to on the presumption that we are too stupid to know the difference! To my dismay, recent evidence would indicate that he was right.
If the case for imminent threat from Saddam bin Laden is so convincing, so irrefutable, why is it that lies and innuendo must be called upon to bolster it? We have also been presented with an expert witness as to the present state of nuclear arms development in Iraq from a man who has not set foot in that country in over seven years!
Boiled down, here it is: we’ve been had. Conned, cozened, bamboozled, they’re peeing on our shoes and telling us its raining. And it worked. Lord help us, it worked.
And so here we are. I truly believe that, barring a miracle, Fearless Leader will have his way. He has painted himself, and us, into a corner, nothing short of complete victory will suffice. I have little doubt of that, as well.
And now I must hope that it is so, that the war is swift, brutal and short. I must hope that this pampered and priveleged pissant who thinks himself a Leader of Men will triumph, and return to bask in the glory of a grateful nation.
I must hope that it is thier soldiers who suffer and die, thier children who are made orphans.
And I heartily detest the men who have forced such a choice on me.
Perhaps we should lay aside E Pluribus Unum, it is no longer as appropriate as Oderint dum Metuant: “Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.”