From Merriam-Webster on-line: Git British : a foolish or worthless person
Am I alone here in thinking that Captain Muscles has to have some sort of Strange Brain Disorder or that he's becoming so incapable of reason, that he's about to start genuflecting and praying to his demi-God Bush? From an entry today, Sully takes the most circuitous route possible to forgive and even attempt to rescue the Bush Posse from the perfidious attacks by those who claim the Posse [gasp] lied!
The good news for the president is that the left is still obsessing about his "lies" and his stupidity. The question of lying, however, is obviously an important one. Did, on current evidence, the president deliberately mislead the public on the imminence of the threat of WMDs under Saddam? I've read a lot of critiques now - and it seems obvious that a few parts of the administration's multi-faceted and drawn-out case for deposing Saddam were, to put it kindly, hyped.
So who is he talking about here? Sully of course would never call a President a liar
Doesn't every politician lie? To an extent, of course. But this man has taken the principle of cynical duplicity to a new and chilling level.
Umm, right. Then he invokes 9-11 (the republican excuse for Everything from flatulence to the Aurora Borealis) and the French to further bolster his arguments that some how it's OK to lie, as long as you have your fingers crossed behind your back.
The premise is that after 9/11, only rock-solid evidence of illicit weapons prgrams and proven ties to terrorists could justify a pre-emptive war to depose Saddam. But the point of 9/11 was surely the opposite: that the burden of proof now lay on people denying such a threat, not those fearing it. Would I rather we had an administration that remained Solomon-like in the face of inevitably limited and muddled intelligence and sought the kind of rock-solid consensus on everything that would satisfy Jacques Chirac or the BBC (or John Kerry)?
Sully here try this on for size...it should not hurt your brain too much: Bush Lied, People Died. Repeat it often. Oh, I forgot, you used to believe that HIV risks were not lowered by safe-sex either. Probably a liberal lefty lie as well.
Do I wish in retrospect that the Bushies - and more pertinently, the Blairites - had been doubly careful in not saying things that couldn't be proven? Yes. Does this prove them to be liars and irresponsible leaders? Nope
Remember to send that check to Ed Gillespie, he might not know who you are, and actually let you into an RNC meeting (or maybe some of your friends from the Neocon Cabal can get you in), before they realize you need to be dating Mark Foley and toss you out on your ass.
Notice he makes no comments about President PNAC's intellect. No possible defense there, I guess even for Sully.
posted by Jo Fish on 06.25.03 at 12:15 AM
Comments:
I find the "don't all politicians lie?" argument particularly atrocious. Isn't it the job of the citizenry to keep them honest? "Boys will be boys" isn't a great way to raise kids. It's certainly no way to respond to those who have the power to send troops into combat.
Errg. I feel like I'm channeling Republicans circa 1998. 'Course, "Clinton Lied, A Dress Was Stained" isn't on quite the same level.
