If it weren’t so sad (and tragic), it would truly be funny to watch the White House scrounge around for even the most ridiculous retrospective rationales for war as the original ones collapse around them.
Today we have this line from the Associated Press: “This week marks the first time that the Bush administration has listed abuses in the oil-for-fuel (sic) program as an Iraq war rationale.”
That’s the new casus belli — corruption in the oil-for-food program.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Or, rather, I guess you can make this stuff. Since they are making it up.
In post-9/11 world, we can’t stand idly by while third-world politicians take bribes and kickbacks!
The whole thing makes me feel not only sorry for my country but also sorry for the Kerry campaign’s strategists and opposition researchers because what sort of supple and outside-box mind can possibly predict what arguments the president and his advisors will come up with next?
War was justified because not enough schools and hospitals were open before the invasion.
War was justified by back taxes owed to Kuwait by Iraqi occupation soldiers stationed in Kuwait during the second half of 1990.
War was justified by Iraqi mendacity in fooling Americans into thinking that they had WMD.
War was justified because the UN had to be freed up to work on East Timor and Sudan.
War was justified because Kuwait is still called Iraq’s “19th province” in the Encyclopedia Iraqiana.
War was justified because Saddam was discriminating against faith-based organizations in handing out government contracts …
