We're O.K., You're Irresponsible

In BushLand, that separate universe where the President and his close associates dwell, things are different than in the world where most of us live.

In BushLand:

Planning a war against Iraq even before you are elected is farsighted, worthy of praise and cannot be faulted; and

Targeting Iraq after 9/11, when Al Queda, a largely Saudi organization based in Afghanistan was widely held to be responsible for the attacks and there was zero evidence tying Iraq to the attacks or to Al Queda is . . . well, its just manly; and

It is perfectly alright to ignore the bulk of the evidence and the majority of the experts regarding Iraq's pre-war purchase of aluminum tubes in order to increase the apparent danger of Saddam aquiring nuclear weapons; and

There's no problem with relying on patently forged documents while ignoring the onsite report of a veteran diplomat to assert that Saddam was buying uranium in Africa; and

Who could object to relying on a defector codenamed "Curveball", who German intelligence had pegged as unreliable, to charge that Saddam had mobile weapons labs ready to churn out bio-weapons by the ton; and

The fact that your Secretary of State's critical speech to the United Nations has proved to be riddled with falsehoods and is now, in the Secretary's own words a "blot" on his record and "painful" is hardly worth mentioning; BUT

Don't let anybody suggest that the White House misled anybody about going to war because THAT would be "irresponsible" and "reprehensible".