Krugman on Bush’s Iraq Bait-and-Switch
The more I think about the speech Sunday, the more outraged I get at the way Bush is now using the ‘flypaper’ argument to say the war is protecting US cities from terrorism. See, the Iraqi people had nothing to do with 9/11. So why is it that they’re suddenly nominated as the people in whose neighborhoods this war will be fought?
Grr.
Anyway, Paul Krugman has a column that, while it doesn’t focus on that particular point, does do a great job of showing how the speech ties in nicely with Bush’s history of deflecting blame and making others cover for his failures: Other people’s sacrifice.
