Saturday, May 31, 2003

From an article in today's Los Angeles Times: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also defended the administration's actions in the months before the Iraq campaign, saying in a radio interview Thursday, "This war was not waged under any false pretext." And Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, sought to minimize the importance of weapons of mass destruction in the administration's calculus for war. "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone coudl agree on," Wolfowitz said in comments released Wednesday. The illustrates the only real difference between the Bush administration and the Clinton administration--Bush's people are bad liars, so they're constantly getting caught contradicting each other or changing their story. 11:40:21 PM    comment () Philip Cornford, Malcolm Brown and Tom Allard at The Sydney Morning Herald - Bloody battle for Qantas jet - a man attempted to hijack an Australian jet-liner with two sharpened wooden stakes. Expect the Taking Scissors Away folks to start searching all bags for similar weapons. The passengers on this jet illustrated the reason we don't need the t.s.a. folks. They stopped this crazy, with their bare hands. [grabbe] [End the War on Freedom] The Airport Nazis will have a hard time of it, as there are many millions of sharpened wooden stakes around, with millions more being sold every year. I do look forward with some amusement to the prospect of the government school "zero tolerance" enforcers suddenly discovering the weapon-like nature of all those sharpened wooden stakes. 4:42:29 PM    comment ()

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