Another betrayal of the forces for good in Iraq.
WILSON LIED TO MARSHALL: Yep, it’s right there in the Talking Points Memo interview, unearthed by Greg Djerejian:
For those who would assert that somehow she was involved in this, it just defies logic. At the time, she was the mother of two-year-old twins. Therefore, sort of sending her husband off on an eight-day trip leaves her with full responsbility for taking care of two screaming two year old kids without help, anybody who is parent would understand what that means. Anybody who is a mother would understand it even far better. Secondly, I mean, the notion somehow that this was some nepotism, that I was being sent on an eight-day, all-expense paid–no salary, mind you–trip to the Sahara desert. This is not Nassau we were talking about. This is not the Bahamas. It wasn’t Maui. This was the Sahara desert. And then, the only other thing I can think of is the assertion that she wanted me out of the way for eight days because she, you know, had a lover or something, which is, you don’t take lovers when you have two year old kids at home. So there’s no logic in it.
Perhaps no logic. Just a whole lot of truth.
MOORE AGAIN: Here’s another indictment from a Lebanese paper, befuddled by Moore’s insistence that the Saudis were behind the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (even though they publicly opposed both interventions):
At the heart of Moore’s film lies the malevolent influence of “the Saudis,” a phrase that in the US is increasingly spat out with utter contempt, reminiscent of the tone reserved for “the Jews” in anti-Semitic discourse, ascribing to millions of otherwise heterogeneous people the same menacing and hostile essence. In a great deal of contemporary American discourse, any group of Saudis – including the government, security services, and any collection of citizens, not to mention Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and the hijackers of Sept. 11, 2001 – all represent “the Saudis.”
At some point, the loony left is going to have decide between its demons: are the Jews and neocons the evil ones or are the Saudis? (On a related note, F9/11 has now officially surpassed the entire take of “Jackass.” My joke didn’t pan out.)
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