Archive for May 30th, 2003
The Bush Administration: Scarier By the Day
The Bush administration scares me more and more every day.
First, let me say this: I think it’s counter-productive and intellectually foolish for liberals to automatically hate everything the Bushies do. But my God I’m continuously amazed and discouraged with the White House’s seemingly Machiavellian ways. To wit:
–Where are the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? That’s the main reason we invaded Iraq, right? But so far there’s no evidence of WMDs. (Related Bush administration linguistic evasion here.)
As the Times’s Paul Krugman notes, Paul Wolfowitz, deputy defense secretary, recently said WMDs were emphasized for “bureaucratic reasons . . . because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.” (Krugman, by the way, is on a roll this week: his Tuesday column, about the horrendous new Bush tax cut, is excellent. And just how bad is said tax cut, incidentally? Well, Warren Buffet hates it.)
–Why won’t the family of ex-POW Jessica Lynch talk about her rescue? Is it because the whole thing might have been made more media friendly than it needed to be?
–They might be building execution chambers down in Guantanamo Bay. Jesus.
–Remember that bunker in Bagdad we bombed during the first night of the war? The one that supposedly contained Saddam Hussein? Yeah, well, um…it…er, never existed.
“The Truth Will Emerge,” says West Virginia senator Robert Byrd. I hope so. (Buffett and Byrd links via Nick M.)