That shaggy dog won’t hunt.
You know how you hear a story, and it fits with your gut instincts, your ideal read of the lay of the land, just snaps right in there like the missing puzzle piece the cat kicked under the sofa a week ago? It confirms what you know to be true, what you feel in your gut to be right, what you have the utmost faith will out when all is said and done? You know how you stop, just for a moment, and say to yourself, you know, self, this is just too good to be true?
Well, it usually is.
In other news, that Terrance J. Wilkinson guy? Who was saying all that stuff?
(See, if you hedge your bets when you go with that sort of story, and allow as how it might just be too good to be true, then pride doesn’t paint you into a corner and you don’t have to eat your words and you don’t end up saying such arrant nonsense as, “I think the burden is on those people who think he didn’t have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.” —I bet Ari Fleischer woke up Monday morning and said to himself, “I’ve just got a few days left until retirement!” Then his mirror broke and he spilled some salt at breakfast and then on his way to the White House when he was skipping out of the path of that black cat he ended up ducking under that ladder and, well.)
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Yeah, but this shaggy dog will:
His name's Greg Thielmann, he worked for the State Department during last year's ramp-up to the war, and he's calling the administration a collective liar. It's at the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,995188,00.html
I'm still trying to figure out why this Wilkinson guy would assume an identity for 20 whole years, and then dash it all just for a story that was quickly discredited (and then he disappears).
This is almost as much of a mystery as what the hell Ari Fleischer meant. Is there a theory of preservation of Weapons of Mass Destruction? Take it as a given that they exist, so if they aren't in Iraq, they must be somewhere, maybe Bora Bora.
Ari Fleischer's comment is not hard to understand if you read it in context. It says:
""I think the American people continue to express their support for ridding the world of Saddam Hussein based on just cause, knowing that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons that were unaccounted for that we're still confident we'll find," Mr. Fleischer said. "I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are."
The point is, many of those complaining now supported and agreed with Bill Clinton several years ago when he said Saddam had WMD.
For 12 years Saddam was supposed to account for the WMD - he did not.