Considerettes

In responding to questions about the criticism from Paul O’Neill,

“The stated policy of my administration towards Saddam Hussein was very clear. Like the previous administration, we were for regime change,” Bush said.

Are the Bush haters listening? “Like the previous administration” means Clinton, thus again any criticism of Bush must include criticism of Clinton, except that when Bush said it, he meant it. Somehow to the Bush haters, meaning what you say is somehow a liability.

Will Cynthia “Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened” McKinney try to regain her U.S. House seat? Looks like it.

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, ousted from office in a hostile 2002 Democratic primary, wants a rematch against the woman who beat her: U.S. Rep. Denise Majette (D-Ga.).

On Sunday, McKinney’s father, Billy McKinney, a former state representative, confirmed his daughter’s planned entry into the 2004 4th District Democratic Party primary.

There had been talk about her running as a Green Party candidate.

The outspoken former congresswoman had been courted by the Green Party to run for president, but she issued a statement Saturday turning down the third-party invitation to run.

“I have received words of encouragement from every corner of this country and from Green Party supporters beyond our shores,” McKinney said in a letter to the Greens. “But in the end, a national campaign is not in the cards for me at this time.”

Billy McKinney said running on the Green Party national ticket “was just too way out for Cynthia.”

Y’know, if the Green Party is “too way out” even for McKinney, that really doesn’t speak well for them.

Are Americans any safer since the capture of Saddam Hussein?

BAGHDAD — Attacks against coalition forces in Iraq have dropped 22% in the four weeks since Saddam Hussein’s capture, military records show.

Howard Dean, time to recant yet another statement of yours.

Global Warming update: It was cold enough in Vermont to break records set in 1875. In fact records have been broken all around the northeast U.S.

I credit the Kyoto Protocol.

OK, after all the early reports of WMDs in Iraq turned out to be “fog of war” stories, I waited a bit before commenting on the chemical weapons found in Iraq recently. But preliminary lab tests have been done on them, and they do believe these shells contained “liquid blister agents”.

First, can we stop with all the “Where are the WMDs?” questions? Here are a few, buried in the sand, and finding stuff like this buried amongst the huge amount of sand in Iraq is going to take time (if it isn’t already in Syria).

Second, the first words in this article are “Danish and Icelandic troops”. Odd words for a “unilateral” war, eh?

The Paul O’Neill revelations are becoming less so as hours pass. Instapundit this morning notes this item from The American Spectator:

What former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and other Bush administration blabbermouths failed to mention when leaking NSC documents and the like for the forthcoming book O’Neill worked on, is that the Clinton administration had many of the same documents prepared laying out plans for a Iraq post-invasion Iraq.

It goes on to say that the first George Bush prepared a lot of that for Clinton, so it’s just been passed down from administration to administration. If you’re going to “accuse” Dubya of having an Iraq war plan, you have to “accuse” Clinton as well, just like accusations of having 9/11 intelligence before the fact.

Ted Kennedy LIED (by the standards of his own party)! He said that the war in Iraq was cooked up in the ranch at Crawford, Texas, but now Paul O’Neill’s book is revealing that Bush had started working on that plan far earlier than that:

“From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” says O’Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic “A” 10 days after the inauguration – eight months before Sept. 11.

So how can we believe anything coming out of Ted Kennedy’s mouth anymore?

More on this later.

Not that it should need to be restated, but there are still those who keep asking Bush where Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are, so let’s make the suggestion again: Ask Clinton.

Former US president Bill Clinton said in October during a visit to Portugal that he was convinced Iraq had weapons of mass destruction up until the fall of Saddam Hussein, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso said.

Emphasis mine. Clinton didn’t just say it in the mid 90’s. He’s still saying it. Just so you know.

UPDATE: Just noticed that Instapundit has picked this up as well, and his opening line hits the nail on the head: “This seems like a blow to the ‘Bush lied’ crowd”. Except it won’t be, of course. We’ve know that many in the Clinton administration said this for years, but that hasn’t given the Bush haters a reality check yet.

Looking through this week’s Carnival of the Vanities, I came across this gem at The Smallest Minority. The question for either side of the gun control debate is “Who don’t you trust?”

What liberal media? How about a media that gives almost twice as much time to the field of current Democrats than they did to the field of Republicans in 1999? How about a media that asks most of their questions from a liberal perspective, as much as almost 7 times more often? What about that liberal media?