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.)
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.
Tom Maguire,
Stop raining on my parade.
By the way, does anybody know how to get shadenfreude out of cotton?
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.
it was just too funny to doublecheck
Yeah, that’s what Dan Rather said too…another reason to prefer blogging….