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[ People who engaged in massive coprophagia followed by extensive dutiful regurgitation on the WMD war marketeering front should perhaps be careful of accusing others of "flinging excrement". Not that anybody ever claimed that Iraq was an "imminent threat" or anything, snort. Anyway, more than one source seems to have picked up on this one. ]
Suppose you're a television pundit and you believe something in particular is going to happen. No, you really believe that thing is going to happen. There's only one attention-grabbing method left to convey your conviction: promise that, if wrong, you'll do something utterly ... In March, Bill O'Reilly, shouting head for Fox News, demonstrated his absolute certainty that Americans would find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq by declaring on “Good Morning America,” If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again” (Nine months later, with no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, the nation is still waiting for O’Reilly’s apology ) . . . |
