Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>Republican debate, nauseating, nonsense<<<


Worse yet, the whole spectacle was kicked off (fittingly) with a massive lie by Mitt Romney which went totally unchallenged by Wolf Blitzer. Great way to set the tone and an even better way to lose disgusted viewers right out of the gate.


"MITT ROMNEY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that -- or a null set -- that is that if you're saying let's turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in.

But he didn't do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/05/se.01.html


That's gotta border on criminal negligence for a moderator of a presidential debate to let such garbage pass without comment. Not like Blitzer didn't know the inspectors WERE in iraq and then thrown out. He asked Powell about it himself days before the war started.


"MR. BLITZER: Well, why not just keep the pressure on? Keep the troops there. Keep the threat going and continue to let the inspectors destroy weapons?

MR. BLITZER: Mr. Secretary, is it time for the UN inspectors, the international humanitarian aid workers and journalists to leave Baghdad?'

http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/18755.htm