January 10, 2007

Dopey WNJ Letter of the Week

Joe Sudol of Newark offers the same tired complaints about Iraq:

There is a reason President Bush beat Osama bin Laden in a poll as the biggest villain.

George W. Bush is responsible for the needless deaths of more than 3,000 Americans and 600,000 Iraqis because he lied about Iraq's weapons program in order to get the approval of Congress for the war. We know he lied because he said Iraq was attempting to get uranium from Africa, after that allegation had been investigated by former ambassador Joseph Wilson and was found to be false.

Joe Joe Joe Joe JOE! If George Bush lied, so too did all of these individuals. Given that, Bush hardly had to lie about Saddam to get congressional approval to launch a military campaign against Iraq. Congress either knew this (WMD) to be the case already (and were proven wrong) or they were lying right along with Bush!

As for the "investigation" by Joe Wilson, you mean the one where he was "drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people"? That "thorough" investigation? What President Bush said about Iraq and uranium from Africa was the following: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." That statement was entirely accurate; British intelligence stands by that assessment. Indeed, Wilson himself supplied info that the CIA "took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger."

But this really all is water under the bridge. Tinfoil hatters like Sudol can continue to berate the president for "lying" when actually the smarter course of action is to criticize what a mess he has made of the post-war occupation. But wait -- we're not done! See where Sudol says there's a reason Bush outpolled bin Laden as a bigger villain? Here's Sudol's reasoning:

... there is no evidence that Osama bin Laden was involved in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The so-called smoking gun confession video is a fake. The person alleged to be bin Laden in this video does not look like him.

Joe Sudol, let me introduce you to "Professor" Craig Furlong and co.!

'Nuff said.

Posted by Hube at January 10, 2007 05:06 PM | TrackBack

Comments