October 27, 2005
Cow Hoof Prints
Dear Slats:
There is an old adage in the law that we say to juries. When you are standing in a cow pasture and you see cow hoof prints, it is reasonable to conclude that the prints were made by cows even though the cows are not present at that moment.
From my point of view, you and the other Republicans are so anxious to protect Bush and his cronies, that when you see cow hoof prints in the cow pasture, you conclude that they were made by a guy on stilts with a cow hoof tacked to the bottom of each stilt. Possible, but highly unlikely.
On Sunday, I emailed to all of you an article written by Frank Rich where he went through a detailed history of how the Bush administration got us into Iraq including the activities of the WHIG.
I have concluded based upon the cow hooves that I've seen that Bush and the WHIG intentionally manipulated the intelligence available in order to scare Americans and get us into a war in Iraq. That to me is lying.
When we went into Iraq and found no WMD, Bush changed the reason why we went into Iraq. He now said that we went in because Saddam was a part of the 9/11 terror attack. That turned out be a lie.
Now we being told that the reason we are there is to build a free, democratic nation in the Arab world. The problem is that nobody voted for us to do that. If this is the true reason for "liberating" Iraq, then what's next? Syria? Iran? North Korea? Sudan? Do you want to send your Andrew to free those peoples? I don't want to send mine.
We are supposed to have a "defense department." We are not supposed to have an "attack department." Unfortunately, with Cheney and Rumsfeld in control, that is what it has become.
In any case, I think that the trials of Rove and Libby will bring this all out.
There is an old adage in the law that we say to juries. When you are standing in a cow pasture and you see cow hoof prints, it is reasonable to conclude that the prints were made by cows even though the cows are not present at that moment.
From my point of view, you and the other Republicans are so anxious to protect Bush and his cronies, that when you see cow hoof prints in the cow pasture, you conclude that they were made by a guy on stilts with a cow hoof tacked to the bottom of each stilt. Possible, but highly unlikely.
On Sunday, I emailed to all of you an article written by Frank Rich where he went through a detailed history of how the Bush administration got us into Iraq including the activities of the WHIG.
I have concluded based upon the cow hooves that I've seen that Bush and the WHIG intentionally manipulated the intelligence available in order to scare Americans and get us into a war in Iraq. That to me is lying.
When we went into Iraq and found no WMD, Bush changed the reason why we went into Iraq. He now said that we went in because Saddam was a part of the 9/11 terror attack. That turned out be a lie.
Now we being told that the reason we are there is to build a free, democratic nation in the Arab world. The problem is that nobody voted for us to do that. If this is the true reason for "liberating" Iraq, then what's next? Syria? Iran? North Korea? Sudan? Do you want to send your Andrew to free those peoples? I don't want to send mine.
We are supposed to have a "defense department." We are not supposed to have an "attack department." Unfortunately, with Cheney and Rumsfeld in control, that is what it has become.
In any case, I think that the trials of Rove and Libby will bring this all out.
