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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
As would I, but we should not be surprised that someone who reports to Rumsfeld would wish to be anonymous here.
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No, I'd be more interested in someone explaining what was actually said instead of someone's interpretation of it.
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Maybe. Or maybe the military sources are right when they say that Bush & Co. wanted to be able to point to Zarqawi as a reason to invade. That's what some people were saying at the time. As the administration's credibility has ebbed on all of this, it sounds more and more plausible.
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Ebbed? Only in your mind, son. The "if we repeat it enough, it's true" meme only works for the true believers. I'm sure you're still looking for all of that missing museum treasure, too.
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If you were allowed to re-write this story, no doubt you would make it a comedy instead of a tragedy.
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Tragedy? We liberated a country from a mass killer, killed fewer people per day of war than in an average day under Saddam while doing so, are rebuilding the country's sadly neglected infrastructure and are growing a new, freer society, have huge and widespread support and general good-feeling from the country's inhabitants (not counting, of course, the thugs who simply want to become the next Saddam themselves), convinced Libya to become a WMD-free zone, ended a lot of financing of Pal terrorism, really pissed off the Iranian mullahs, and we've done it all on a fairly small budget for such achievement. Yeah, I'd write it as a comedy, and the people who continue trying to spread the myth that we screwed up would be the Newmans.
I saw a blurb somewhere about a new weapon the army is sending in to Iraq this week for crowd dispersal. It's a sound generator, which can send a focused beam of intensely painful noise at a target. I immediately thought of Josh.
