Marshall: Getting al-Zarqawi (Or Not)
Interesting talk from Joshua Micah Marshall about how the Bush White House apparently was pressured on three different occasions to go after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the year before the invasion of Iraq, but each time shot the idea down because eliminating an al Qaeda operation from Iraq (though admittedly, the part of Iraq that Saddam Hussein didn’t control, thanks to our efforts) would have made it harder to push the bogus claim that Hussein and bin Laden were in bed together: What to make of this…
Yet another opportunity for Bush supporters to display their patriotic double-standard, giving Bush a pass for behavior that, if engaged in by a Democrat, would be eliciting words like “outrage,” “treason,” and “impeachment.”
March 5th, 2004 at 9:15 am
Actually, if a supporter of any given President, republican or democrat, had to defend as factual all unsubstanciated pieces of isolated information that came along that could project their party’s leader in a bad light, they would have a pretty busy, but lousy job.