Anyone out there remember Newt Gingrich? I know, I know, I worked hard to forget him too. Who would've predicted that a few years later we'd be looking back on our time sparring with him as the good-ol'-days... well, comparatively so, anyway.
Although relatively quiet since his retirement from politics, ol' Newtee is making a little noise again. And what do you think he's screaming about? The latest atrocity committed by the liberal media? Gay marriage? Hillary Clinton's demoralizing statements to GIs in Iraq?
None of the above. Former Congressman Gingrich is criticizing the Bush administration's Iraq policy. According to the AP, in an upcoming Newsweek story, Gingrich says that he was proud of what Gen. Tommy Franks, who planned and commanded the American-led invasion of Iraq, did "up to the moment of deciding how to transfer power to the Iraqis. Then we go off a cliff."
Umm... what? You know something is amiss when Newt Gingrich is criticizing an ultraconservative president in a time or war. So how does the administration react to this? Well, Bush chief of staff Andrew Card had this to say yesterday on Face the Nation: "Well, Newt Gingrich is not all-knowing."
You see, the Bush administration is not going to dignify with a response the crazed rantings of an America-hating, terrorist-loving, baby-killing, radical leftist such as Newt Gingrich.
In fact, contrary to what pinko Gingrich had to say, Card expressed the view of the administration, "Things are going better than they could have been expected to go at this time, and we're making great progress."
Ok, all sarcasm aside: This fucker said this on the same day insurgents attacked a U.S. military patrol in northern Iraq, killing one soldier and wounding two and a day after an American air raid in Afghanistan killed nine children How's that for going better than they could have been expected.
On CNN's Late Edition, Card "dismissed as 'a moot point' any lingering question about whether Bush relied on faulty intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq." I suppose we can infer that whether or not Bush lied to the American people and the international community in making the case for war a "moot point" as well.
In a triumph rhetorical mastery, reminiscent of Shakespeare's Marc Antony, Card asserted that intelligence has been "very, very good" overall. He added, "Intelligence is a collection of dots, and then an analysis on how those dots might be connected. Some of those dots may not be what they appear to be, and some of the connections may not have been what people would have suggested." His thrilling use of the passive voice aside, Card silenced critics with those masterfully constructed sentences. For mere rhetorical mortals, I'll break it down. In a nutshell Card said: We know things. Some things we know might be related to other things we know. But some of the things we know, it turns out we don't know. And when we said they were related, what we meant was that they were not related.
These people think we're the dumbest human beings on the planet. And they're probably right.
Posted by cs at December 8, 2003 8:06 PM