Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
"We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in." George W. Bush uttered that amazing sentence yesterday to justify the war in Iraq, according to the Washington Post. "Now a presidential statement so frontally at variance with the universally acknowledged facts obviously presents a problem for the White House press corps," comments Joe Conason. "There's no plausible explanation, unless the president suddenly flashed back to his Yale sophomore philosophy seminar, grappling with the argument that everything we perceive is mere illusion. For the moment, however, let's just assume reality does exist. What possessed the president to make an assertion that everyone on the planet knows to be untrue? And who is going to take the responsibility for this one? Did George Tenet vet Bush's statement? Do the British have a secret dossier proving that Saddam never actually admitted Hans Blix and the UNMOVIC teams? Will Condi Rice or Donald Rumsfeld show up on Fox News next weekend to explain why Bush's statement is 'technically accurate,' even though he shouldn't have said it? As hard to explain as what Bush said is the press corps' failure to report his stunning gaffe."
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