blogging from work. i am too busy to do this, but i feel compelled to repost what i just read over at atrios' blog--this block quote written by eric alterman:
It is almost too ironic to point out, for instance, that when the
administration (in the form of Rice, Tenet, Cheney, and Powell)
attempts to pooh-pooh the Niger lie by saying it was “technically
correct” — they did not have sexual relations with that country
— or was just one small piece of a larger case, that virtually
every aspect of their case was a lie. The WMD threat was a lie.
The al-Qaida connection was a lie. The promise of democracy
and human rights was a lie. And as today’s front page
Washington Post story indicates, they got stuck
with the stupid Niger tale because everything they had been
saying about nukes was a lie, too. “But a review of speeches
and reports, plus interviews with present and former
administration officials and intelligence analysts, suggests that
between Oct. 7, when President Bush made a speech laying
out the case for military action against Hussein, and Jan. 28,
when he gave his State of the Union address, almost all the
other evidence had either been undercut or disproved by U.N.
inspectors in Iraq.” (And this to say nothing of the apparently
clueless Bush who somehow forgot that it was he who ended
the inspections regime, not Saddam.)
sorry i don't have the time to post my own thoughts, but this is pretty much on the mark anyway and i got work (and gay films) to do
