A tot of rum
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Eliot Weinberger has a piece in the latest issue of the London Review of Books that comprises short paragraphs of things he 'heard' about Iraq. There are about six pages of these paragraphs and they build nicely into yet another testament to the lies, duplicity, arrogance, and downright evil of the Bush administration.
My favourite is this Rumsfeld quote. He had denied ever calling Iraq an immediate threat. A journalist present at this press conference then read aloud from a transcript that proved Rumsfeld had indeed said just that. Rumsfeld's pithy comeback:
The best you can say is that at least he was being honest for a change.
My favourite is this Rumsfeld quote. He had denied ever calling Iraq an immediate threat. A journalist present at this press conference then read aloud from a transcript that proved Rumsfeld had indeed said just that. Rumsfeld's pithy comeback:
It - my view of - of the situation was that he - he had - we - we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that - that we believed and we still do not know - we will know.
The best you can say is that at least he was being honest for a change.
