bulletproof with butterfly wings

By Todd Stadler · Saturday, September 28, 2002 3:58am

So Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has "bulletproof" evidence that ties Iraq to Al Qaeda. That evidence, however, is "not beyond a reasonable doubt".

Man, bulletproof isn't what it used to be. Maybe he should call his evidence "water resistant".

Either way, I doubt we'll ever get to hear the evidence. But I trust that, whatever it is, it's worth killing several thousand people over. I mean, that's not so many people if we turn out to be wrong.

Another stellar quote from the linked article: "If [Saddam]'s on the run, he's not governing Iraq."

That's just great. Are we planning on attacking Iraq, only to have Saddam escape us once again?

Because, you know, having the whole exiled leader who has possibly died and therefore is possibly a martyr but either way has grown in myth and influence has been nothing short of a stellar strategy in dealing with Al Qaeda, who it should be noted, we are apparently no longer so concerned with rooting out and dismantling.

It's not like we started bombing Afghanistan with the explicit intent of getting them to give up bin Laden, I mean.

Yikes. Such bald cynicism. I need a vacation from the news. Let me know if we change any regimes while I'm gone.