Fri, January 14, 2005
"You don't go to war with the intelligence you want..."—10:53 AM
"...you go to war with the intelligence you have, made up to look like the intelligence you want."
You know I love to beat a dead horse, but when it comes to the Bush administration, the Iraq war, the WMD thing, the presidential campaign... sometimes it's less depressing to just leave it alone.
I realized this week, that's exactly their strategy! Let this nonsense fester for so long that we tire ourselves out yelling about it like the Scavo kids pulling that sled across the yard in Desperate Housewives. Then, when an investigative panel forces them to admit two years later that their entire pretense for the war was as false as we've said all along, we're too exhausted to care any more. As an added bonus, lots of long-haired protesters in Birkenstocks have been seen on TV saying the same thing over the same period, so the vast, soggy midsection of red-stater America (when they stop taking potshots at queers from the back of their pickup trucks long enough to tune into Fox News) have completely discounted the "no WMDs" argument as the lunatic ravings of a bunch of hippie crackpots. It doesn't make a dent in their love for Bush to hear these claims validated; if anything, it strengthens their belief that he's being persecuted by an unchecked media with a liberal agenda, and they'll defend him more staunchly than ever.
Okay, that's enough. My dead horse has now been beaten so completely that it's reduced to tiny, airborne subparticles like in the Itchy & Scratchy version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
I'm just glad BC04's gold-plated, fur-lined inaugural committee has skipped the bill on security for the inauguration of that sick, evil fucker. Maybe DC will balk at paying for extra snipers, and we'll get to see a real show next week!
Joe Mulder — Fri, 1/14/05 11:04am
"Then, when an investigative panel forces them to admit two years later that their entire pretense for the war was as false as we've said all along, we're too exhausted to care any more."
(you have to imagine Bush saying this like Snake from "The Simpsons" after he tricked the nerds our of their wallets with the "wallet inspector" bit): "I can't BELIEVE that worked."
Bee Boy — Fri, 1/14/05 11:06am
And that's surprisingly easy to imagine!