/em Gets out his hip wades to wade through the increasing political bullshit.
Some of you folks need to get a grip, and you know, tune into the real world. Iraq-gate? Come ON guys. To compare this to Watergate is just criminally stupid IMO.
I can’t believe I’m even getting in this, as I can’t stand ole GW OR his administration. However, much as I’d loved to see him trashed, I also have full use of my frigging memory, and I seem to recall that EVERYONE fucking thought that Saddam had the god damn thing!! I didn’t hear you people whinning about all this BEFORE the invasion. I didn’t hear the French or Germans or ANYONE ELSE (except the Iraqis) protesting that Saddam DIDN’T have the things. Even the UN teams THOUGHT that he had some things out there. If someone knows of a country, head of state, etc etc, that KNEW that Saddam didn’t have them, please provide some cites for said protest well in advance of the invasion.
Personally I think ole GW and his merry men were just WRONG (and they aren’t alone in being wrong either). But they launched an invasion based on bad data, and doing so, they fucked up…royally. I think that they will pay for it too come next election (personally I’ll vote for Mickey Mouse before GW…which will probably be my choice too). If you want to nail him/them for being stupid, for being wrong, or for exagerating what ‘evidence’ they had, cool…I’m with you. But to say that he knowingly and deliberately mislead the American people and the world, KNOWING that Iraq DIDN’T have ANY WMD, and knowing that HE’D BE CAUGHT FOR IT (which is the only way there would be a scandle like Watergate)??? Bullshit. If this is the case then GW is MUCH stupider (and more importantly his STAFF is) than I can credit. I see NO logical reason for him to lie, knowing he’d be eventually caught. I DO see reasons for him to exagerate his evidence, or to look at said evidence in a biased way. He actually thought that they would find said WMD, and is probably in a state of shock that they haven’t yet.
To me, this whole stupid comparison of the current events with Watergate smacks (and STINKS) of another round of political hay making and bullshit.
/em Appologizes for the harsh language.
I now return you to your already scheduled endless rant…
-XT