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Thursday, October 14th 2004

8:04 AM

A Letter Written by My Sister-in-Law (warning: political)

  • Illustration: well, not really -- unless you consider not publishing something a form of censorship. But I like that icon.
  • Random Quote: Politics. From the Greek "poly" meaning many, and "ticks," a small, annoying bloodsucker. --Dave Barry

She's an activist, and the Washington Post (her local rag) rarely publishes her letters.

Subject: "I wasn't happy," the president said
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004

"I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons ...," said President Bush during the second presidential debate on October 8, "and we've got an intelligence group together to figure out why."

A curious statement on the face of it. The President, and the citizen who posed it, were both alluding to Mr. Bush's admission the day before that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the United States invaded. This, in turn, was based on the conclusion of the C.I.A.'s chief weapons inspector in a report issued the same day.
 
"I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons." Maybe it was the syntax that was so peculiar. Mr. Bush might have turned the sentence around: "I wasn't happy that our pre-war intelligence had it figured wrong, as clearly shown when we found out there weren't weapons, since this was why I led the nation to war."
 
Or, the President might have looked on the bright side of the matter. Consider these alternative answers:
 
1. "I was happy when we found out there weren't weapons, since it suggests that a long and concerted effort by the international community to control a gun-happy dictator by imposing sanctions worked."
 
2. "I was happy when we found out there weren't weapons, since it suggests that the U.N. system of weapons inspections was successful in defanging a leader who posed a serious danger to his own and other people."
 
3. "I was happy when we found out there weren't weapons, since the hardest decision a president has to face is sending young men and women into combat, and it's reassuring to know they were never in grave peril of having weapons of mass destruction used against them."
 
4. "I was happy when we found out there weren't weapons, since hidden caches of such weapons could even now be posing an ugly threat to our brave young men and women fighting in Iraq."
 
5. "I was happy when we found out there weren't weapons, since it eliminates the possibility that the foreign terrorists pouring into Iraq to join the insurgency will find weapons of mass destruction they can use to attack the American homeland."
 
Of course, it wouldn't have been politic for the president to say any of these things. What is disconcerting is my own guess that he is not even capable of thinking them. The most plausible finish to Mr. Bushs's "I wasn't happy ... " is "because it ups the real possibility that I will lose this election."
 
Sincerely,
 
J. R.
20 People Say.

Posted by Bec:

I think your sister needs to blog. My theory is, if you can't get some one else to publish you, publish yourself :)
Thursday, October 14th 2004 @ 11:30 PM

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Posted by Kate Rothwell:

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