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<< Leave No Millionaire Behind Act | Main | An Honest Conservative >> January 23, 2003Thank God for White House ArroganceThe Bush White House seems dedicated to alienating as much of the world as possible. Responding to the German-France agreement to give the inspectors in Iraq time, Donald Rumsfeld dismissed them as essentially irrelevant "Old Europe." Not necessarily a good idea where one holds a veto on the Security Council and the other is one of the current members. And they are pissed now: Finance Minister Francis Mer said he was "profoundly vexed" by the remarks.It just seems like this White House is doing everything to sabotague their own campaign with their impatience. With this arrogance, with this bloodlust, so evident with this administration, the global protests that will explode in reaction when the first pictures of civilian deaths are broadcast from Iraq will overwhelm the imagination. Maybe this White House is so detached from reality that they can't recognize this, but hopefully the accumulation of protest at home and resistance abroad will force them to back off from their plans in the end. Posted by Nathan at January 23, 2003 07:53 AM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: Comments....instead of casting Germany and France as irrelevant, Rummy should have instead said that they "add no value", so that his eventual apology would have pretty much already have been written... Posted by: Jack K. at January 23, 2003 05:46 PM >> "Maybe this White House is so detached from reality that they can't recognize ..." I have started to think so. The latest "reasons" for going to war are more ludicrous than the ones that got shot down before. We must go to war with Iraq, not because it's a present or near-term-future threat but because Saddam lied. Pull-eeze. They bluster that any Iraqis who fire on invading American troops will be treated as war criminals. I resist any attempt to characterize American actions as being somehow akin to what the Nazis did, yet it's becoming harder and harder to do so. More and more, I see some signs of resemblance between our leaders' rhetoric and the "intolerable provocations" Germany said they detected from Poland and Czechoslovakia in the late 30s. Are they listening to anyone but themselves anymore? Posted by: Steve Cohen at January 23, 2003 09:39 PM Ah, I see the threat to Iraqis fighting in self-defense was directed against using chemical weapons in self-defense. OK, that's a little different than what I thought I heard him say. But still, on the other hand, WE would never lower ourselves to sign treaties saying we would never use them, either. Posted by: Steve Cohen at January 23, 2003 10:31 PM Post a comment
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