The Wall Street Journal makes a guest editorial from Casper Weinberger available today on its free OpinionJournal site.
The yellowcake kerfuffle seems so insane that the President's defenders just ignore it. The former SecDef rides to the rescue with a devastating piece:
Completely frustrated by their inability to belittle, sneer at or just plain falsify about the victory of our troops in Iraq, opponents of the president are now reduced to using bits and pieces of non-evidence to contend that we did not have to replace the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein.
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The real unanswered questions are these:
* Did anyone seriously believe we went to war because we had a British report that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger?
* What would all of the Democratic presidential candidates have done if faced with such reports, and all the others, about Iraq's efforts to acquire biological and chemical as well as nuclear weapons? Would they have ignored the reports?
[Cross-posted to ZogbyBlog]
Posted by jk at July 18, 2003 10:02 AMWhat the fine-print-reading, Saddam-loving, hand-wringing anti-war Relativists don't seem to get is that it doesn't matter if the Nigerian Uranium info is true, because in their "reality," there's no such thing as truth. In their "reality," George W. Bush is not the President of the United States anyway. Why they continue to breathlessly attack the non-President instead of hanging on the every word of their "president Gore" I'll never understand.
Posted by: JohnGalt at July 18, 2003 01:11 PM