Now realize that Begala being the attorney that he is knows that he should not ask a question he already knows the answer to. But here goes the transcript excerpt (it's long...patience Camille)
BEGALA: Senator, let me ask you about this matter of the aluminum tubes. First off, earlier in the year, our president say the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, had a report that said Saddam Hussein would have a nuclear weapon in six months. The IAEA said, "With respect, Mr. President, that's false. There's no such report."
Then he told us that there were these aluminum tubes that were going to be used to make nuclear weapons. The U.N. inspectors said that's not the case. The British intelligence, our closest allies, say that's not the case and the American intelligence agencies say that is not the case.
Doesn't our president need to level with us instead of making things up?
ALLEN: What do you reckon they're using them for? Making aluminum baseball bats? Pay attention Georgie, the adults are talking now
BEGALA: No, sir, they're actually for conventional -- No, they're for conventional weaponry. They're for conventional weapons and not nuclear weapons.
ALLEN: Right. And do you know that their rocketry and missiles far exceed what the United Nations allows them to have?
BEGALA: Yes, but that doesn't make them nuclear. Why did he say they were for making nuclear bombs when he knew, or should have known...
ALLEN: Well, they could be. They could have been.And Smirky could have actually shown up for his Flight Physical, but it did not happen
BEGALA: So they would have to buy the wrong size tubes and then modify them.
ALLEN: If you want to ignore all the facts and when you use the legal terms...No, stupid we're paying attention to the facts, you and your only intellectual equal in DC are ignoring the facts
BEGALA: Are the Brits ignoring the facts?
ALLEN: Look, some of these facts are stipulated that the president was talking about last night. They're not just from our intelligence. These are facts of and quantities of chemical or biological agents that, several years back, the United Nations said Iraq had and they have not been destroyed. There's no evidence of where they are.
Sure, can you go around there playing find the needle in the haystack, but that's not what this is about. He is supposed to show what's happened to him so that they can be destroyed.
Now, if you all can go around like Pollyanna, thinking Saddam Hussein is not a threat, that's fine. But I think the president has made a convincing case and it's not just evidence, again, from us. The United Nations has had these mandates on him. He has defied them year after year after year. So how long do y'all want to wait?
Did he watch the same speech I saw, or does it look and sound different when you have a naturally low IQ and are off your meds?
I Love Allen's logic and clarity of vision, I was expecting Allen to jump up and yell "you are all yankee demons and will burn in hell because you Dare Question my President from God" in the middle of that last rant.
