Saturday, June 25, 2005
THREE FACTS ASSERTED
Editorial in the New York Times:
To have the sober conversation about the war in Iraq that America badly needs, it is vital to acknowledge three facts:
The war has nothing to do with Sept. 11.
I don’t think we need bother with the other two.
UPDATE. Osama bin Laden in his 1998 fatwa calling for the killing of Americans:
No one argues today about three facts that are known to everyone.
All three are about Iraq. Via reader Heather.
UPDATE II: “You have to be worried when a guy with too much mascara and a snake wrapped around his neck has a keener grasp of basic new millennium geopolitics than so many leading lights of the Democratic Party.” And the New York Times.