Comment: "We need to think about" Bush using Adelman, Woolsey, Perle and Gaffney to do Bush's dirty work, so as to not leave presidential fingerprints on the hoariest lie of all - that Iraq was an accomplice in 9-11.
15) Withholding the key fact that would show your principled pose is a pose devoid of principle:
"Saddam Hussein [attacked Iran in 1980] and Kuwait in 1990."
(U.N. speech, Sept. 12, 2002)
Comment: The Swedish government is entitled to condemn Iraq for invading Iran. The current U.S. government - featuring key players from the very Reagan administration that supported Iraqi aggression throughout the 1980s - is not. If you surround yourself with officials who supported the aggression in real time, you are not entitled to be angered by it 20 years later.
15) Withholding the key fact that would show your principled pose is a pose devoid of principle:
"Saddam Hussein [attacked Iran in 1980] and Kuwait in 1990."
(U.N. speech, Sept. 12, 2002)
Comment: The Swedish government is entitled to condemn Iraq for invading Iran. The current U.S. government - featuring key players from the very Reagan administration that supported Iraqi aggression throughout the 1980s - is not. If you surround yourself with officials who supported the aggression in real time, you are not entitled to be angered by it 20 years later.