Bremer's attempt at unsaying
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
Wow - Josh Marshall does a great job of dismantling Bremer's attempt in a NYT op-ed piece to unsay what he clearly said.
Says Marshall:
In the Times today, Bremer's only response seems to be: Even though I said what I said, I wasn't really saying it when I said it.
But read the whole analysis in Talking Points linked above. Hope the Kerry folks do because this will certainly come into play in tonight's presidential debate - a debate I suspect will be more heated than the last one and that should work in Kerry's favor, for it is Bush who is on the defensive and he doesn't do well when people toss honest questions at him. Still, I'll keep my fingers crossed until well after the debate. Kerry will need to be in top form. Why? Again, Marshall puts it best in another entry in his blog where he says:
War was justified because not enough schools and hospitals were open before the invasion.
War was justified by back taxes owed to Kuwait by Iraqi occupation soldiers stationed in Kuwait during the second half of 1990.
War was justified by Iraqi mendacity in fooling Americans into thinking that they had WMD.
War was justified because the UN had to be freed up to work on East Timor and Sudan.
War was justified because Kuwait is still called Iraq's "19th province" in the Encyclopedia Iraqiana.
War was justified because Saddam was discriminating against faith-based organizations in handing out government contracts ...
Posted by Greg Stone at October 8, 2004 04:29 AM