Saddam's thought crimes finally come to light
nypress.com
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"So what's the difference?" a slightly flustered George W. Bush asked Diane Sawyer last week when she challenged him on whether Saddam Hussein actually had weapons of mass destruction, or just wanted to get his hands on some.
"The possibility that he could acquire weapons," Bush continued, now defending the invasion and occupation of Iraq based on Saddam's thoughts, desires and wildest dreams rather than his actions, "if he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger. That's what I'm trying to explain to you."
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With that logic, I should pay taxes on a brand-new BMW just for wanting one. Hell, I should be locked up–and, in Texas, given the death penalty–just for some of the ugly thoughts that have gone through my own mind in recent months.
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Gone are those heady days of Colin Powell's maps and grainy photos of deadly trailers filled with diabolical scientists making poisons designed to knock off entire populations. "My colleagues," Powell told the U.N earlier this year, "every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions.
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Florida Sen. Bill Nelson's revelation that someone in the Bush administration last year told him and 75 other senators that Iraq not only had WMDs but had the means to deliver them to cities on the East Coast, presumably including New York and Washington. The classified briefing, Nelson said, came just before he and the majority of senators voted last October to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq.
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I guess if you can think you are guilty.
Wait it's worse than that....
Our thought police get to decide what you are thinking and base our actions on what we think you think.
Nothing scary about that at all.
Nothing at all.
Mish |
