republican calls bush a terrorist
Busy Busy Busy notes:
Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.), recently:
We didn’t make the decision about going to war. The terrorists made the decision about going to war.
Well, ok, but are Republicans allowed to say that about the man they call the President?
Head over to the Busy site to see the bush actions that connect the dots.
Ted Barlow dissects mcClellan’s answers regarding Rove and the Plame affair. It is good entertainment whether you think there is an issue here or not.
Update: For more background see this Mark Kleiman article.
Update 2: This post at Eschaton argues that Tenet knows exactly who leaked the Plame info. Via MaxSpeak. .
Well, he said this 2 1/2 years ago:
And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.
As The Slactivist points out:
A year later, when the administration’s goal was no longer merely maintaining sanctions, but a full-scale invasion of Iraq, they argued precisely the opposite. Saddam has WMDs. He poses a threat.
Go read the Slactivist’s report and analysis.
Update: This is getting a bit old in blogosphere time. Walter noted early this morning that others like Kevin Drum, Atrios and Lean Left were hitting on this yesterday. Go over to idols of the marketplace to get those links.
Gwynn Dyer suggests the real reason many countries are responding slowly to bush’s ‘plea’ for help with Iraq:
Nobody talks openly about this, but many governments are also privately debating whether they want to help save the Bush administration from the consequences of its own folly.
Without a lot of military and financial help that can only come via the UN, Bush may be dragged down to defeat by the Iraq war in the November 2004 election. With the extra troops and money, he might contain the problem enough to survive. But, they ask themselves, do we really want that?
xymphora enumerates five additional reasons.
al Quaeda, in the newly published The Future of Iraq and The Arabian Peninsula After The Fall of Baghdad by bin Laden associate Yussuf al-Ayyeri, says that their battle really is againt the American system:
‘IT is not the American war machine that should be of the utmost concern to Muslims. What threatens the future of Islam, in fact its very survival, is American democracy.”
Amir Taheri reviews the book and its arguments in the Washington Post. Since I haven’t read the book I will posit that Taheri’s analysis and extracted quotes are representative of al Qaeda’s position. It certainly seems to match what has filtered through the bushie’s smokescreens.