Why do they hate America?

[womzilla]

A letter in today's New York Times:

To the Editor:

Paul Krugman (column, June 3) suggests that the United States government was disingenuous about the intelligence available regarding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Clearly, he prefers placing his trust in Saddam Hussein rather than in United States officials who acted in good faith on the best information available.

Before the war, critics maintained that United Nations inspectors would need months to years to search for evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Yet less than two months after the war, these same critics rush to judgment, unwilling to give coalition forces time to find weapons that Saddam Hussein had years to hide.

The threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction is a documented fact. It is far too early to make any judgments. We have an extensive effort under way. Let's allow our team to finish the job before drawing conclusions.

VICTORIA CLARKE
Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Public Affairs
Washington, June 4, 2003

Victoria Clarke, you may recall, is the Pentagon spokesthing I wrote about a couple months back who managed to lie about what Donald "The Most Ruthless Man in America" Rumsfeld had said were the US objectives for the war while claiming to quote him directly.

In three short paragraphs, she tars Krugman as a lackey of Saddam Hussein, attributes to him vague statements from unnamed "critics", claims that undocumented facts are documented facts, and implies that the search for Iraq's banned weapons is under way when, in fact, the main US Army team delegated to the search has been pulled off the job and sent home. The only trick she missed was in not asking why Krugman hates America.

I want these people gone. This isn't America any more.

Comments

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for bringing this contemptible letter to our attention. I'm happy to read it, it's such a crude hatchet-job that it wouldn't convince the dimmest Weekly Standard shill, let alone a reader of the New York Times.

Don't worry, this is still America. The people in charge have just forgotten the country they're in.