There They Go Again
Over at Where Did My Brain Go Or Is It Possible I Never Had One? they resurrect a long-time effort at trying to show that Democrats believed the same things about Iraq as did the GOPresident.
At issue is a variant of email that makes the rounds of righteous wingers fairly regularly. Unfortunately for them, the “facts” they claim it represents are only facts by the barest margin, since many of the quotes offered up are rather dramatically out of context, or from entirely different eras in different circumstances.
Which is not, of course, to say that a rather substantial part of the Democratic Party didn’t let themselves get suckered by the GOPresidency’s lies about Iraq from 2001 onward. But frequently at issue with these emails are quotes from an earlier period of time during which Iraq did actually have WMD.
A period during which the U.S. and the international community, in fact, dealt with those WMDs, which would be why Iraq didn’t have any when the GOPresidency took us to war against them.
For example, quotes from Harry Reid and John Kerry were uttered in 1992 and 1990 (as shown in the first link), respectively, and not, as Where Did My Brain Go Or Is It Possible I Never Had One? would have you believe, during the GOPresidency’s process of deceiving the nation into the war in Iraq.
As the second link shows, Pelosi’s quote was made in 1998, during a period of time which ultimately included a series of Clinton-ordered airstrikes which were deemed successful in “degrad[ing] Saddam Hussein’s ability to deliver chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.”
So much for the “facts” offered up by Where Did My Brain Go Or Is It Possible I Never Had One? — and so much, too, for their attempt to disguise their right-wing source by claiming this was just some Canadian news site reporting what American media ignores.