Amazing quote of the day. This from Frank Gaffney on CNN last evening (emphasis added) …
This is a danger that I’m afraid, in the preoccupation that came about as a result of going down, I think, this unfortunately dead end of the United Nations, because the only thing we were allowed to talk about at the United Nations was weapons of mass destruction. We were not allowed to talk about repression of the people of Iraq, about which we have seen so much evidence. We were not allowed to talk about Saddam Hussein’s conventional threat to his neighbors. He went to war twice against them.
We were not allowed to talk about this connection to terror. We were only really allowed to try to engage the United Nations on the grounds that he had weapons of mass destruction. I’m confident we’ll demonstrate that he did, not just the remnants of old programs, but ongoing programs. And I believe today we know absolutely, without a doubt, the Iraqi people are better off, because, despite the U.N. saying, “Oh, I’m sorry, we’re not persuaded,” the conventional threat is diminished, if not completely eliminated. The terrorist links are ruptured. And I’m confident that our other concerns about the repression of the people of Iraq is now going to be at an end.
It’s the UN’s fault that we had to focus on WMD? Shouldn’t there be a penalty box for this kind of ridiculousness?
