Perfidious Canada!
So now when a reporter does something the White House doesn't like -- such as accurately report the dissatisfaction of American troops in Iraq who feel they have been misled by secretary of defense Rumsfeld -- we can expect the Bush team to start leaking ostensible dirt about the reporter to the likes of Matt Drudge. Only the best the clowns now running the White House press office could come up with about ABC reporter Jeffrey Kofman is that he is (a) gay and (b) Canadian.
Shock! Horror! Surely we cannot trust the news as reported by these limpwristed Canucks! Surely if those servicemen had only known that they were dealing with a perfidious Molson-swiller of suspect sexual leanings, they would never have talked to him!
It's getting positively Nixonian out there.
Pay no attention to that president behind the curtain, says Weinberger
Meanwhile, speaking of Nixonian, Caspar Weinberger showed up on the Wall Street Journal op-ed page today, arguing that the Niger yellowcake scandal is no big deal. After recycling the "British have learned" literalist defense one more time, he goes on to say, "The real unanswered questions are these: Did anyone seriously believe we went to war because we had a British report that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger?"
Well, no, Cap. A lot of us didn't believe that at the time: We believed that the President and Dick Cheney had already made up their minds to launch a war for a bunch of other reasons. But it was the president who got up in front of the nation and told us all that the Niger connection was one of the key pieces of evidence driving us to invade Iraq.
So I guess what you're saying, Mr. former Secretary of Defense and former chief of Bechtel, is that we were right to distrust the president, we should never have taken the president seriously, and those who did so are fools worthy only of contempt. Thanks for clearing that up.
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