David Frum: On Second Thought, I Didn't Coin "Axis of Evil"
More interesting than whether Frum jumped or was pushed is Frum's assertion to John Ibbitson in the Feb. 26 Toronto Globe and Mail that the phrase he coined was not "axis of evil," but "axis of hate," and that someone changed "hate" to "evil." In a Feb. 10 column, Novak reported that it was White House chief speechwriter Michael Gerson who made the change. That would lend credence to Time magazine's version of events, which is that Frum and Gerson coined "axis of evil." In the Globe and Mail interview, Frum now says, "I think it was actually the president" who scratched out "hate" and scribbled in "evil."
How I created the axis of evil
The phrase Frum comes up with is "axis of hatred", describing the ominous but ill-defined links between Iraq and terrorism. It is Gerson who tweaks the phrase into the "axis of evil", to make it sound more "theological".
"I thought that was terrific," Frum says. "It was the sort of language President Bush used."
In the second link it states that bush fashioned a new enemy for America.
I will never understand how people can buy into something like that. These enemies existed long before W took office and to assert he fashioned (read: fabricated) a new enemy is simply revisionist history with a twist of bush hate.
I sure am glad that more and more docs are trickling out that are creating a pile so high that not even Hans Blix or Scott Ritter could possibly believe the crap they have said over the last few years.
Thanks for the links.