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24 March 2003  

Rumsfeld for President!

I loved Donald Rumsfeld's comeback yesterday to Wolf Blitzer's harping on what pictures of the bombing of Baghdad might do to incite terrorism:

BLITZER: [T]here are plenty of people out there, counterterrorism experts, who have already expressed fear that the images of this bombing, the Shock and Awe campaign, will merely ferment [sic] terrorism, create new recruits for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to go after American targets.

RUMSFELD: Wolf, I know there's lots of so-called experts opining on this and that. The fact is that the terrorists did not need any provocation. They attacked the United States of America on September 11, viciously killed 3,000 innocent men, women and children of every religion, of every nationality across the globe. That was not a response to an attack on Baghdad. It was an unprovoked attack....

[T]he idea that -- that this is provocative is wrong. Weakness is provocative.

10:06 AM |

A River in Egypt

Ian Hamet has a good post on people who refuse to see the obvious. A sample:

[W]hen Reality hefts a Louisville Slugger, assumes the stance, rears back and smacks The Anointed across the forehead, they blink once or twice, rephrase what they just said, and ignore it.

09:51 AM |