MORE WINGNUTTIA

This time from Charles Krauthammer. In an op-ed that appeared in my local paper, "Iraq bears responsibility for creating government," he argues that we should have put the exiles in charge right away:

"In retrospect, I think we made several serious mistakes ... not installing an Iraqi exile government right away.."

Yup, he wanted the very unpopular exiles put in charge:

"Preliminary results in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad indicate that Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress scored a minuscule 0.36 percent of the votes.

Out of almost 2.5 million voters in Baghdad, only 8,645 voted for Chalabi.

In the Shiite city of Basra, the results indicate he had an equally dismal showing of 0.34 percent of the vote.

In the violent Sunni province of Anbar, 113 people voted for him."

No wingnut op-ed would be complete without a blatant lie and here's Krauthammer stepping up to the plate:

"Our objectives in Iraq were twofold and always simple: depose Saddam and replace his murderous regime with a self-sustaining, democratic government."

Now, can someone ask him to explain these statements from the Bush regime:

"We know for a fact there are weapons there." - Ari Fleischer, Jan. 9, 2003

THE PRESIDENT: Our mission is clear in Iraq. Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament. 3/6/03


"But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about."
-Ari Fleischer Press Briefing 4/10/03