Posted on 02/02/2003 3:36:34 AM PST by kattracks
February 2, 2003 -- REGARDING Iraq, the president, a baseball man, has been lucky. But as baseball's Branch Rickey said, luck is the residue of design.In two eventful weeks, the president's policy of regime change has been advanced, in part inadvertently, by the uncoordinated activities of three unlikely parties - France, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and Colin Powell. The consequence is that many critics of the president's policy have been intellectually disarmed.
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Dont take offense please, Im hooked on bushisms...
"France has a population significantly smaller than, and shrinking relative to, the populations of, among many other nations, Vietnam and Egypt.And France is rapidly morphing into an Islamic theocracy."France has a per capita GDP smaller than that of Denmark or Japan, among others."
"Many of these critics sought to paralyze the president by leashing him to the United Nations. Now they are discovering that Bush is holding the leash. "Oh, George. Hahaha! You are so clever! (Both of you.)
Tom Daschle. Meet the Press, November 2002.
Tom Daschle, Joe Lieberman, John F. Kerry, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, et al. Meet the Press, November 2004.
Why does no one on the left realize this? They are a team of U.N. weapons inspectors, not investigators. This isn't a cop / lawyer show where we have to catch the perps, show the evidence, and get a conviction. This is an audit. They either make two plus two equal four, and show us the proof, or they go to jail.
That is a totally unforgettable point. Mr. Bush did not allow himself to forget that we pay the bills anyway.
The answer to your question is, in fact, very simple.
In sum, they don't want to.
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