The Mark(ings) of Zorro

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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

Taking one for The Chief
And, according to this news story, another member of the Bush team is asked to fall on his sword "for the Gipper". (Yeah, yeah...I know...his dad worked for The Gipper, but, in a way, the family still works for The Gipper.) What Shrub and his handlers are not addressing is the culture in the White House that led to the inclusion of "tainted" intelligence. All these people knew that Bush wanted to make a strong case to go after Saddam. He couldn't go after him based on the fact that Hussein was a particularly nasty dictator since he had criticized Clinton et al for doing just that both in Somalia and in Bosnia. No, he had to make Hussein an active threat to our security otherwise he would be open to attack as being a hypocrite. Of course, the poetic justice is that now he is open to both charges that he is, in fact, a hypocrite and that he has committed a crime by making these false claims. After all, he is the president and the buck does stop at his desk. (Speaking of which, he should be man enough to step up and make that announcement, to wit: "I am the President and I do take full responsibility for all statements I made in this matter." At least if he did that, rather than push subordinates onto their respective swords, we could at least respect him for taking the heat like a man. But I guess that is too much to ask of this son of privilege who never really had to do that in the past.)

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