Dispatches from Paul and Colin

So it seems that according to a forthcoming article in Vanity Fair, we invaded Iraq in order to pull our troops out of Saudi Arabia, thereby bowing to Osama bin Laden’s demands while ostensibly waging war on him through his proxy, Saddam Hussein. This reinvents doublespeak.

“For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.”
—Paul Wolfowitz

And, this just in (from US News) from Colin Powell’s February 1st rehearsal reading of his speech detailing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction: “I’m not reading this. This is bullshit.” He read it.

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