So in today’s news from the White House, we learn that it is okay that GWB made allegations that Hussein was shopping for uranium in Africa in his State of the Union address, because he thought it was true. I mean, he really didn’t have any doubts about it, so it’s okay that he said it. And he thought it was true that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were also for a nuclear weapons program. Again, no doubts to him that it was true—he saw it in print. He is free and clear and absolved of all responsibility for statements he made because he really thought they were true. And he was sure that these claims were true, well, because he didn’t read the entire intelligence report. I mean, who has the time?
Does anybody even know of an elementary school teacher that this argument would fly with? Sorry teacher, I was too busy playing horseshoes to read the entire book, so I wrote a book report based on the part that I did read, so it’s not my fault that it isn’t right.
Except that this isn’t a book report, it’s a war, a war where apparently this moron who by accident of privileged birth fell into high office in the most powerful nation in the world can’t be bothered to read intellegence briefings before he kills people. He doesn’t get an F for this, he ought to get an impeachment.
“The president of the United States is not a fact-checker.”
Ah. That’s interesting. Well, my response is that he had better goddamn well be a fact-checker, that’s his job. As head of the Executive Branch of the United States Government, the responsibility for appropriate enforcement of the laws and resolutions set forth by Congress rests with him. He is the one to whom the intelligence agencies report their findings; the decisions based upon it are his; there is nowhere else to fling the buck. That’s what the office means. Oh, but we’re not surprised that he never paid attention in government class either.