Hullabaloo

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

 
Bush of Arabia

by digby

I'm sure I'm not the first to make this observation, but NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez's racist statement from yesterday regarding the fabulist W. Thomas Smith's dispatches from Lebanon, is a teensy bit ironic considering certain statements from some blue-blooded Americans recently:

As one of our sources put it: “The Arab tendency to lie and exaggerate about enemies is alive and well among pro-American Lebanese Christians as much as it is with the likes of Hamas.” While Smith vouches for his sources, we cannot independently verify what they told him." (emphasis added)

Six weeks ago:

THE PRESIDENT: ...But this -- we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously. And we'll continue to work with all nations about the seriousness of this threat.

Today:

"Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush said, pointing out that Tehran continues to try to enrich uranium for civilian purposes and therefore develop technology that could be used for a weapon.

[...]

"What's to say they couldn't start another covert nuclear weapons program?" Bush asked.

The latest estimate shows "Iran needs to be taken seriously as a threat to peace," Bush said.

Maybe Junior caught the "Arab tendency to lie and exaggerate about enemies" virus hanging out with his good pal Ahmad Chalabi.



*And, by the way, he keeps saying that nations cannot be allowed to get "the knowledge" necessary to build a nuclear bomb. Does he really think that's something he can stop? And by what means, I wonder?

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digby 12/04/2007 09:00:00 AM |