Whose Petard Hoists Whom?

The dissembling in this year's presidential campaign–and politics in general–would be much more entertaining if it didn't seem to matter quite so much. Nevertheless, one occasionally has to laugh.
Today had Bush accusing Kerry: my opponent voted for the invasion of Iraq, and now he says it was the wrong war.
Kerry says: My support was based on information that later turned out to be incorrect.
Now, is there anyone (except for the President, who is notably out of touch with reality anyway) who actually believed at the time that the White House was not manufacturing all the "evidence" that they used to justify rushing to invade Iraq?
Of course not. We all knew. Specifically, Kerry and his colleagues in Congress knew. Nevertheless, patriotic blood-lust was running high and it was popular to pretend to believe the manufactured "evidence" and vote to authorize the use of force.
They knew better then. But now, what do we have? With the war going so badly and no WMDs, the White House is forced to pretend that they thought the "evidence" was good at the time, and that it has only now been discovered to have been based on faulty intelligence.
And so, having painted themselves into this deceitful corner so neatly, the White House really has no recourse but to accept Kerry's disingenuously stating that he was innocently hoodwinked at the time, unless the Administration wishes to reveal the even bigger fraud that they knew all along that their "evidence" was all made up. Tsk tsk.

Posted on October 28, 2004 at 13.23 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Splenetics

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  1. Written by JMC
    on Friday, 29 October 2004 at 06.58
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    So very true. This is why some people have decided to vote for Kerry; not to actually vote for him, but to vote against Bush. They say (whoever they is) that hindsight is always 20/20. Hey, I have an idea, maybe it was peer pressure. Kerry felt pressured to do what all the "cool" kids were doing at the time. Now where is that bridge…

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