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  • Today's Wall Street Journal opinion page? Wow! There's Karl Rove, on "Can The Black Guy Buy The Presidency." (Sample: "Mr. Obama's ads show he's aware of his vulnerability on two fronts: his liberal values and his meager achievements.") Then there's "Obama Should Embrace His Muslim Heritage," penned by Junaid M. Afeef, just in case there weren't enough people Googling "Is Obama A Muslim?" Good call. There's an op-ed that's about how awesome America's economy is: "Of course America could be falling, but I have my doubts. For one thing, the book market is too strong." Um. The book market is too strong? But the real winner is Douglas Feith, who chimes in with CRAZY.

    He writes:

    A lot of poor commentary has framed the Iraq war as a conflict of 'choice' rather than of 'necessity.' In fact, President George W. Bush chose to remove Saddam Hussein from power because he concluded that doing so was necessary.
    Well of course he concluded that, ya dipstick! Because, as Feith quotes Donald Rumsfeld from 2001, "Within a few years the U.S. will undoubtedly have to confront a Saddam armed with nuclear weapons."

    1. No.
    2. Not really!

    Then Feith goes on to recast the administration's entire usage of 9/11: "Saddam's regime was not implicated in the 9/11 operation," writes Feith. Funny stuff, because that was the exact opposite of the Bush administration's PR campaign.

    • By Choire Sicha   07/03/08 12:30 PM
    Related: Douglas Feith, Duly Noted, Politics, Scandal, Wall Street Journal
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