Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The messenger is the message

It's remarkable watching the intellectual acrobatics of conservatives who on one day will accept as a premise (from Douglas Feith's book) that George Bush changed his Iraq war rationale ex post from WMDs to remaking the Middle East while excoriating Scott McClellan for suggesting that George Bush changed his Iraq war rationale from remaking the Middle East to WMDs (because he knew the former wouldn't sell a war on its own) and then back to remaking the Middle East (once he had his war but not his WMDs).

It's especially remarkable to see conservatives proclaim bewilderment at why Bush uses the remaking the Middle East rationale when he could still argue his WMD case, while bashing McClellan -- who has the obvious explanation for why Bush clings to the former rationale: that it was his real motivation for war all along.

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