They’re doing it all over again.
Posted : September 23, 2004 at 10:14 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
[via Daily Kos: Allawi does the ‘Saddam-9/11′ thing]
JIM LEHRER: What would you say to somebody in the United States who questions whether or not getting rid of Saddam Hussein was worth the cost of more than a thousand lives now and billions and billions of U.S. dollars?
PRIME MINISTER IYAD ALLAWI: Well, I assure you if Saddam was still there, terrorists will be hitting there again at Washington and New York, as they did in the murderous attack in September; they’ll be hitting also on other places in Europe and the Middle East.
As Joshua of www.talkingpointsmemo.com eloquently puts it,
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Every so often you just have to sit back and marvel at the Twilight Zone we’re living in at the moment.Here we have a US-installed foreign head of state, whose travel schedule is determined by the US State Department, visiting the US to buoy the president’s election campaign and spouting demonstrable lies in order to support a retrospective rationale for war that the White House wants Americans to believe but lacks the gall to state explicitly
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Are we going to let these guys fool us again? I sure hope not.
- Anand
Category: United (or not) State of American Politics 2004