Logical Conclusions: Taking the True Measure of the Situation
October 20, 2005
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Not a day goes by without someone in the Bush Gang telling us that things are “getting better” in Iraq, that every new terrorist bombing or insurgent attack is actually evidence that “the insurgency is weakening,” growing more desperate, in its “final throes”. (Even if, as Condi Rice notes, those throes may last for 10 years or more.)
Of course, we’ve been seeing this same witless cud dribbling out of Bushist mouths for years now. Below, in an excerpt from the Empire Burlesque book, we see this logical conclusions applied, er, logically, to other
hat the Taliban wild man in charge of blowing up two giant, 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha in 2001 — an unconscionable crime against culture, against history, indeed, against humanity — 
d on the Bush gang, and 
shows how almost every assertion of “fact” Powell made during his pre-attack UN presentation (which “clinched the deal for war,” as the mooing herd of punditry all agreed afterward) was unsupported by intelligence data — and that Powell knew this when he spoke. Jon has chapter and verse, link and source — it’s devastating.