There’s a chance that the British Tory leader may have to resign in a petty expenses scandal combined with general malaise. Is there a Churchill-figure on the wings?
IMMINENCE WATCH: More distortion from Jules Witcover in the Baltimore Sun:
When President Bush went to New Hampshire the other day with his current justification for invading Iraq, he seemed to have forgotten those missing weapons of mass destruction he insisted earlier posed such an imminent threat.
Witcover also archly implies that the president asserted a direct link between Iraq and 9/11. He didn’t. Last night, the lie continued on “60 Minutes.” According to CBS News:
Greg Thielmann tells Correspondent Scott Pelley that at the time of Powell’s speech, Iraq didn’t pose an imminent threat to anyone – not even its own neighbors.
Grrr.
The Dish 