Wednesday, April 28, 2004
AND IF YOU "PEEL AWAY" THIS?
The Captain's Quarters notes this exchange between "Hardball's" Chris Matthews and Kerry:
Matthews: "If there was an exaggeration of WMD, exaggeration of the danger, exaggeration implicitly of the connection to al Qaeda and 9/11, what's the motive for this, what's the 'why?' Why did Bush and Cheney and the ideolouges around take us to war? Why do you think they did it?"
Kerry: "It appears, as they peel away the weapons of mass destruction issue, and --we may yet find them, Chris. Look, I want to make it clear: Who knows if a month from now, two months from now, you find some weapons. You may. But you certainly didn't find them where they said they were, and you certainly didn't find them in the quantities that they said they were. And they weren't found, and I have talked to some soldiers who have come back who trained against the potential of artillery delivery, because artillery was the way they had previously delivered and it was the only way they knew they could deliver. Now we found nothing that is evidence of that kind of delivery, so the fact is that as you peel it away I think it comes down to this larger ideological and neocon concept of fundamental change in the region and who knows whether there are other motives with respect to Saddam Hussein, but they did it because they thought they could, and because they misjudged exactly what the reaction would be and what they could get away with."
Now, what could be clearer!
And yet many claim President Bush is inarticulate.
Come to think of it, Kerry was simply speaking in the wrong tongue. Such ramblings sound decidedly better in French.
Kerry's equivocating on the WMD issue is particularly telling, since it seems that, perhaps, they had (and have) indeed found THEM. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, April 28, 2004
The Captain's Quarters notes this exchange between "Hardball's" Chris Matthews and Kerry:
Matthews: "If there was an exaggeration of WMD, exaggeration of the danger, exaggeration implicitly of the connection to al Qaeda and 9/11, what's the motive for this, what's the 'why?' Why did Bush and Cheney and the ideolouges around take us to war? Why do you think they did it?"
Kerry: "It appears, as they peel away the weapons of mass destruction issue, and --we may yet find them, Chris. Look, I want to make it clear: Who knows if a month from now, two months from now, you find some weapons. You may. But you certainly didn't find them where they said they were, and you certainly didn't find them in the quantities that they said they were. And they weren't found, and I have talked to some soldiers who have come back who trained against the potential of artillery delivery, because artillery was the way they had previously delivered and it was the only way they knew they could deliver. Now we found nothing that is evidence of that kind of delivery, so the fact is that as you peel it away I think it comes down to this larger ideological and neocon concept of fundamental change in the region and who knows whether there are other motives with respect to Saddam Hussein, but they did it because they thought they could, and because they misjudged exactly what the reaction would be and what they could get away with."
Now, what could be clearer!
And yet many claim President Bush is inarticulate.
Come to think of it, Kerry was simply speaking in the wrong tongue. Such ramblings sound decidedly better in French.
Kerry's equivocating on the WMD issue is particularly telling, since it seems that, perhaps, they had (and have) indeed found THEM. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, April 28, 2004
