Right On Iraq
Posted by Shannon Love on September 24th, 2004 (All posts by Shannon Love)
Guess who said this:
“We know we can’t count on the French. We know we can’t count on the Russians,” said Mr. Guess-Who “We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it’s in our national interest.”
Go ahead guess!
Bwaa ha ha ha!
Jeez, I just laughed so hard I schadenfreuded my britches!
(Update: The quote is looking increasingly dodgy. In fact, it doesn’t seem to be so much a quote as a creative reconstruction. It is sort of like what the press does to Rumsfield all the time. *Sigh* It was just to funny to doublecheck.)
September 24th, 2004 at 6:23 pm
Careful, gents – there is some doubt (lots of doubt, actually) over whether the Wash Times ran an exact quote, or a paraphrase provided by King.
This was kicked around the blogosphere last spring – here is my old post with both excerpts and a transcript.
I have some current thoughts on this here.
Powerline is similarly puzzled, BTW.
Have a great weekend.
September 24th, 2004 at 7:20 pm
Tom Maguire,
Stop raining on my parade.
By the way, does anybody know how to get shadenfreude out of cotton?
September 25th, 2004 at 12:17 am
No, I saw a replay on Oreilly factor last night where Bill interviewed Kerry on 12/11/01. He more or less said the same thing – ie we reserve right to pre-emptive strike, Saddam has been violating resolutions, U.S. reserve right to act unilaterally, etc etc. Really something.
September 25th, 2004 at 5:46 pm
it was just too funny to doublecheck
Yeah, that’s what Dan Rather said too…another reason to prefer blogging….