The Borg?--Classic Rape Defense

[Lightning Rod]

It's the classic rape defense. "She got into my car. She was wearing sexy clothes, She came up to my room. She let me kiss her. Then she screamed 'rape' when I turned her over the chair and fucked her." (ok, Kobe, I'm not necessarily talking about you.)

Both the president and vice-president have been taking the rape defense this week in the face of massive questioning about the run-up to the war in Iraq.

"Some of the most irresponsible comments have, of course, come from politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing force against Saddam Hussein,"-- Cheney

and from the president in Korea where he has fled to avoid the crumbling situation in Washington,

"I agree with the vice president, I think people ought to be allowed to ask questions. It is irresponsible to say that I deliberately misled the American people.

"What bothers me is when people are irresponsibly using their positions and playing politics. That's exactly what is taking place in America."

Do you notice the re-iteration of the word irresponsible? Who are these people? The Borg? Does Karl Rove just program them to use the same phrases?

[Doreen Peri]

I don't know who these people are but they've sure fucked the world even after she said NO! over and over! And they continue to screw her while she keeps screaming NO!

[mnaz]

Yeah.... I heard some Cheney snippets on the radio the other day. He echoed what stilltrucking has said about the Congresspeople who voted to authorize the use military force in Iraq. He claims that Congress had complete and ready access to all pertinent intelligence at the time, and that it simply "didn't do its homework".
This is a key point (and a shrewd tactic by the Administration).

However, it doesn't hold much water IMO because I've read how the neo-cons, under Cheney's direction, locked down the Pentagon and twisted whatever intelligence they had into tightly-controlled, ominous and highly misleading talking points. Hell, they even shut out the CIA. This, plus some of those points were outright fabrications, including the lynchpin of the case for war, the Saddam-Niger uranium connection. And remember also that the Iraq Resolution only authorized force as a last resort.

So what we're left with is this: The Admin. deceived Congress into supporting an unnecessary war, and is now trying to blame Congress for going along with it. The new math sure can get tricky, can't it?