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February 27, 2007

If they thought we were funny then . . .

J
ustice Antonin Scalia's has been quoted as saying the Supreme Court acted in Bush v. Gore because the country had already been waiting for a resolution of the contested 2000 presidential election "for about a month while the whole world was laughing at us."

" . . . the whole world was laughing at us."

What bitter irony.

If the election of Bush/Cheney in December 2000 was funny, then America's misadventures in Iraq -- with shifting explanations, alliances, and rank corruption -- must be hilarious.

Sorry I'm not laughing. Then again, I'm not -- like Rick Blaine -- a citizen of the world.

Posted by shertaugh at February 27, 2007 4:44 PM

Comments

rank corruption

Oil-for-Food was an EU-UN corruption issue.

Posted by: JohnAnnArbor at February 27, 2007 6:25 PM

Oil-for-Food was an EU-UN corruption issue.
Good point. If there was an earlier scandal of some sort in Iraq that didn't involve the current administration directly (although it did involve US companies and major GOP campaign donors), then none of the subsequent scandals count. It's the famous "Primacy of Sleaze" principle or, in Latin, tu quoque.

Posted by: Mojo at February 27, 2007 10:48 PM