I don't usually prowl around Newsmax, but I took Tom's quiz (humph) in Template for Invasion, and bumped into this interesting article, Bush WMD Response to Target Bill Clinton.  

The next counter-offensive to squash Bush's war critics is presented here:

U.S. News & World Report says the RNC ad will spotlight Clinton's Feb. 17, 1998 speech on Iraq, where the former prez "guaranteed" that Saddam Hussein would use his weapons of mass destruction.

I had wondered where the winger's recent interest in Bill was going, since he is not someone on the WH's A list.  A quick snoop around the net produced a few details, but nothing coherent.  Here they are in case they do, or do not, have any relevance to the latest anything but the truth White House.

In May of 2004, Sidney Blumenthal revealed that the Bush White House had established a secret network of prisons across the globe, for the purpose of disappearing and "legally" torturing people suspected of wrongdoing as part of the War on (Some) Terror. Few people paid attention to him.

Times have changed.

I'd like to preface this post by wishing everyone a Merry Fitzmas (and a Happy Fitznukah to our Jewish readers). I'm sure you've already heard about Scooter, so I'll spare you another reiteration of the details. As the indictments drag on, I'll be sure to keep you updated on the spin situation - that is, how the righties plan on excusing a series of crimes that are far more serious than the counts that got Clinton impeached. (Early reporting shows that the strategy may be the "Deny Everything" tactic. "Who is this Bill Clinton of whom you speak?")

Now, on to the actual post.

This week, we hit a landmark in Iraq - the 2000th U.S. fatality. Obviously, this was a sad occasion that was ruthlessly spun by people with more bile than remorse. Now, I know that you all watch the Daily Show, which means you've probably been watching the Colbert Report as well. (You have, right? Good. There will be a test later.) Because of this, I'm sure that most of you have also seen the egregious display that the pundits at Fox & Friends put on that day. Usual drill - 2000 deaths isn't that much, Vietnam blah blah blah not all of them were actually blown up, and etc. It's a heartless argument, to be sure, but will it work? Good question.

A Miami Herald columnist suggests that George Bush is "delusional."  I would suggest that George Bush is simply recognizing that by calling the unnecessary Iraq War at this point the war on terror, he smoothly makes the transition.  Bush demands the power of a president using the word war to give him the ultimate war powers in every aspect of our lives.  

Cagily substituting a war on terror for the defensive war against those non-existent weapons of mass destruction, apparently makes Bush and the entire Republican administration fantasize everyone will forget his original claim.  It stated that the U.S. was compelled to go to war to protect us against Saddam Hussein, who was ready to strike us with those weapons of mass destruction that the world now knows were non-existent.