Monday, February 09, 2004
Come to think of it...
What in the world is NY Times writer Richard W. Stevenson doing, injecting partisan politics into this quote?
The President himself--after grammatically joining them for months--admitted there was no "cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda", even as his own Vice-President continued to claim such a connection existed.
If the White House has a problem with this allegation now it's because they couldn't even get their own story straight. For Stevenson to go out of his way to mention that "Democrats and liberal groups" are pointing out the contradictions is a little beside the point.
Democrats and liberal groups responded to the interview with further attacks on Mr. Bush's credibility, suggesting that the president exaggerated the degree of cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda...Technically true, we suppose, but look:
The President himself--after grammatically joining them for months--admitted there was no "cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda", even as his own Vice-President continued to claim such a connection existed.
If the White House has a problem with this allegation now it's because they couldn't even get their own story straight. For Stevenson to go out of his way to mention that "Democrats and liberal groups" are pointing out the contradictions is a little beside the point.
