Sometimes, they take your breath away
I am used to right wing pundits misleading, selective quoting and downright lying, but Charles Krauthammer recently told a whopper so huge that it took my breath away:
It is obvious he did so because he thought that, post-Sept. 11, it was vital to the security of the United States that Saddam be disarmed and deposed.
Under what analysis? That Iraq posed a clear and imminent danger, a claim now being discounted by the critics because of the absence thus far of weapons of mass destruction?
No. That was not the president's case. The President didn't say that Iraq was an imminent threat? Dubya may not have said those exact words, but that is what he implied. Check out this from Ari Fleischer's May 5th press briefing:
Q Well, we went to war, didn't we, to find these -- because we said that these weapons were a direct and imminent threat to the United States? Isn't that true?
MR. FLEISCHER: Absolutely. One of the reasons that we went to war was because of their possession of weapons of mass destruction. And nothing has changed on that front at all. We said what we said because we meant it. We had the intelligence to report it. Secretary Powell said it.
The headline of the LA Times story on Dubya's 2003 State of the Union address was "Bush Calls Iraq Imminent Threat", an interpretion I doubt the White House disputed.
Actually, it was the DEMOCRATS who said that Iraq did not pose an imminent threat.
As I said, a whopper so big that it took my breath away.
6:42:01 AM 
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