WTF Is It Now?!?

Statesmanship is for weenies!
'As we marvel over military prowess, let's not forget about other, less covered stories: that the National Security Agency bugged the delegation of every other member of the U.N. Security Council except Britain; that the CIA was either too incompetent or too politically corrupted to spot a crude forgery of a document tying the Iraqi regime to purchases of nuclear materials in Africa; that the president of the United States is so petulant and so oblivious to the basic diplomatic requirements of the job that he has not spoken to the president of France for a month.

'But the response of some pro-Bush blowhards is even more insulting. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president," Teddy Roosevelt said during World War I, "is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable." Not to mention that when Republicans, in a coordinated effort, attacked Sen. Tom Daschle for criticizing Bush, they set a new indoor record for hypocrisy. These were the same folks (e.g., House Majority Leader Tom DeLay) who, with our pilots in harm's way over Iraq in 1998, decried the bombing because it was launched by President Clinton. The movie they explicitly invoked was "Wag the Dog."' - Jonathan Alter.