[lbo-talk] Missing WMDs and the new philosophy of government

Daniel Davies d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 13 02:14:31 PST 2005


> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:00:02 -0800
> From: "Leigh Meyers" <leigh_m at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Fw: And you voted for Bush, because?
> Do you feel like Americans were misled into believing that Iraq had
> weapons of mass destruction?
>
> 21436 Votes
>
> Yes, but it was not deliberate. 4338 20%
> Yes, and it was deliberate. 12679 59%
> No, Americans were not misled. 4419 21%
> --

Just out of interest, has anyone at all lost their well-paid government job over this? George Tenet, I suppose, but nobody else, and no British politicians or civil servants at all. I just can't believe that, even on the most innocent interpretation, you can have a cock-up as serious as this and it's literally nobody's fault.

The worrying thing is that this philosophy of government is spreading to the third world. Levy "The Cabbage" Mwanawasa made a speech yesterday with the immortal lines

"It has not been possible to reduce poverty and I feel sad about it [...] Unfortunately, if Zambians made a mistake to elect me as president, they are stuck with me until 2006"

This speech has apparently gone over quite well in the Zambian press.

best,

dd

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/12/wzamb12.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/12/ixportal.html

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