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NEW YORK--"When it's all said and done," Bush still confidently insists, "the people of the United States and the world will realize that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had a weapons program." This once again begs the question of presidential dyslexia: You're supposed to find the WMDs before the war, silly rabbit!
This bizarro Administration does everything bass-ackwards. The recession is hardest on the poor and middle-class, so Bush gives tax cuts to the rich. When an overwhelming invasion force was needed to secure Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites), Rumsfeld sent in a skeleton crew. Now that the citizens of those countries want us to go home, Gen. Tommy Franks has announced that our 148,000-man, $5 billion-a-month occupation army will get bigger and stick around until whenever.
Now the Bushists are reversing the traditional lifecycle of every political ruckus from Teapot Dome to Watergate. Knowing that most scandals last as long as a mosquito, smart politicians wait to see whether a given outrage will spark lasting popular fury before concocting a risky cover-up. Not these guys. They've started the cover-up before the scandal has had a chance to catch on!
Little things hook big fish: tax evasion for Al Capone, a minor stock trade for Martha Stewart (news - web sites), a sexual dalliance for Bill Clinton (news - web sites). So it is with George W. Bush: whether or not the man who conned us into two wars ends up sharing a cage with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad could come down to this line from the 2003 State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
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