Friday, September 24, 2004
The President's Favorite New Toy...
It's called the "Iyad Allawi". When you seat it in a position of power and pull it's string, it happily spouts Bush re-election fodder and right-wing talking points without the slightest hint of honesty or dignity!
Take a listen!
JIM LEHRER: What would you say to somebody in the United States who questions whether or not getting rid of Saddam Hussein was worth the cost of more than a thousand lives now and billions and billions of U.S. dollars?
PRIME MINISTER IYAD ALLAWI: Well, I assure you if Saddam was still there, terrorists will be hitting there again at Washington and New York, as they did in the murderous attack in September; they'll be hitting also on other places in Europe and the Middle East.
What the Allawi is saying is that despite Saddam Hussein having no connection to Al-Qaida and/or the 9-11 attacks, if he was still in power, we (along with Europe) would've been hit again by now.
Never mind the deadly attacks by Al-Qaida in Spain and elsewhere around the world.
Oh, and please ignore the fact that not a single 9-11 hijacker came from Iraq...
Josh Marshall puts it best:
Here we have a US-installed foreign head of state, whose travel schedule is determined by the US State Department, visiting the US to buoy the president's election campaign and spouting demonstrable lies in order to support a retrospective rationale for war that the White House wants Americans to believe but lacks the gall to state explicitly.
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