Molly Ivins, 15 July 2003, Creators Syndicate
Maj. Gen. Carl Strock said Monday electricity and water in Baghdad are still below prewar levels. The New York Times noted, in its Timesly way, "The assessment appeared to run counter to earlier assurances by the Pentagon ..." Rumsfeld, with his usual cocksure breeziness, said on May 15: "A few areas have challenges, to be sure. But most areas are progressing and a growing number actually have conditions that are today estimated to be better than prior to the recent war." What number, from what to what? Out of how many?
When is the Washington press corps going to figure out that's precisely the kind of statement by Rumsfeld that needs extensive deconstruction? The New Republic's ruthless dissection of the administration's lies, deceptions and flimflam in its June 30 issue (don't miss it) is a stinging rebuke to the disgraceful level of journalism we are now getting in this country.
Have you ever read anything as tortured and ridiculous as Ari Fleischer's non-admission admission that Bush lied about the supposed Iraq-Niger uranium deal? Not even Clinton at his most "depends on what the definition of is is" could top that one. Do look it up.
Ol' "Bring 'em on" Bush talks tough and can't even figure out how to find the right stick.
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