Sunday, July 13, 2003

 

from today's NYTimes:


Senior Bush administration officials adjusted their defense today of President Bush's claim in his State of the Union address that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa, insisting that the phrasing was accurate even if some of the underlying evidence was unsubstantiated.

No, no, no! That won't wash! Because what Bush said in his SOTU was that "the British had LEARNED that Iraq was attempting to buy uranium," etc.

"Learned" implies truth, whereas US intelligence agencies had already advised Bush that this "fact" was bullshit.

Your closest ally doesn't "learn" a disputed factual assertion that your own people tell you is bullshit; the Brits may have "heard" it, they may "believe" it, but Kommander Kodpiece's Krew of Keystone Krips inarguably crossed the border into Rancho Mentiroso when they asserted that this bullshit was "knowledge" to be "learned."

posted by Michael 10:46 PM