<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>[Raimondo just loves beating up on Andy Sullivan -- and I <EM>love</EM> to watch! DP]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P align=left>So call off the dogs of perpetual war, Bill Kristol and Michael Barone – and somebody puh-<I>leeze</I> tell Andrew Sullivan to chill out, willya? Candy Andy was <A href="http://www.andrewsullivan.com/">his usual fun-loving self</A> the other day, averring that in the past the US has wielded the threat of nuclear retaliation against biological warfare, and demanding that the Bushies "act now" and "draw a line." This, we are assured, "need not mean nuclear weapons" – but, then again, it just might be a good idea, anyway. Oh, Sullivan is an expert on everything: even before the scientific evidence was in, he just knew it was Iraq all along: </P> <P align=left><I>"At this point, it seems to me that a refusal to extend the war to Iraq is not even an option. We have to extend it to Iraq. It is by far the most likely source of this weapon; it is clearly willing to use such weapons in the future; and no war against terrorism of this kind can be won without dealing decisively with the Iraqi threat. We no longer have any choice in the matter."</I></P> <P align=right><EM>~ Andrew Sullivan, 10/17/01</EM></P> <H2 align=left><FONT size=3>Wrong, Andy, dead wrong: but of course we'll never see any acknowledgment of his error. Never mind that, if he'd had his way, the US would have nuked Iraq last week. Being the fair-haired neocon boy-pundit of both the London and the New York Times means never having to say you're sorry. </FONT></H2> <P align=left>It kind of reminds me of <A href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20011024_777.html">the idiot who killed a turban-wearing immigrant from India</A>, because, as he told his wife, "all Arabs should be shot." When the cops came to his Phoenix home to arrest him, he reportedly said: "I'm an American. Arrest me and let those terrorists run wild?" The differences between this drunken sub-literate wife-beating fool and the literary wonder boy of the neocon set are superficial: morally, they are brothers under the skin – though at least the Arizona knuckle-dragger had the courage to act on his murderous convictions. All Sullivan can do is write in his little weblog – and thank God for that!</P> <P align=left><A href="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html">http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html</A></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>