Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Operation Iraqi Freedom?
The Instapundit nails the NY Times for lying about WMD -- the NY Times declares that Bush only "seized upon" Democracy after the claims of WMD proved "fictitious".
The only plausible reason for keeping American troops in Iraq is to protect the democratic transformation that President Bush seized upon as a rationale for the invasion after his claims about weapons of mass destruction turned out to be fictitious. If that transformation is now allowed to run off the rails, the new rationale could prove to be as hollow as the original one.I'll go farther than the Instapundit -- Actually the NY Times managed to sneak 3 lies into one sentence!
- That Bush only "seized" upon Democracy after no WMD were found. Wrong! Refuted by the Instapundit.
- Bush intentionally deceived America with the claims of WMD.
"fictitious":adjective
Wrong! There is no evidence that Bush was lying, and there is "slam dunk" evidence to the contrary.
1. false: not true or genuine, and intended to deceive - With respect to the WMD, we went to war because Iraq had WMD. Wrong again!
The US went to Iraq because Iraq refused to comply with a) the Gulf War I cease-fire, and b) the 16 or 17 UN resolutions, i.e. Saddam did not demonstrate to us that they had no WMD -- in fact he seemed intent on being deceptive.
I suppose the NY Times editors hate Bush too much to see the difference.
