March 17, 2003

Welcome to Quagmire

Here's the text of President Bush's speech.

Meanwhile:

A CIA spokesman refused to discuss the matter. But some officials charge the administration is not interested in helping the inspectors discover weapons because a discovery could bolster supporters in the U.N. Security Council of continued inspections and undermine the administration's case for war.

So the pretext for war may be based on at best circumstantial evidence, and at worst a tissue of lies.

Posted by Linkmeister at March 17, 2003 04:16 PM
Comments

That's exactly what I thought. Sad, ain't it?

Posted by: ali at March 17, 2003 11:42 PM

Given all the fudging (I'm being kind) this Administration has shown, promising to fix domestic things and then not budgeting a penny to do so, and in fact cutting the programs through the budget process, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But there's gonna be a lot of destruction based on this.

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 18, 2003 07:24 AM

It makes me physically ill (and very sad). I truly feel for the soldiers who are there and their families who wait. I wonder if Bush will ever be charged with war crimes?

Posted by: shelley at March 18, 2003 08:59 AM

War crimes, no. But we're gonna be a long time getting past this "pre-emptive war" policy. See this week's Newsweek cover.

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 18, 2003 09:59 AM