“We’ve got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we’re setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida. Why don’t we just go set up the card tables ourselves, right now? Sign them up to commit suicide. And you never hear anybody talking about this. It would be helpful if there were someone telling the president, well, yes, there is this danger from Iraq, but there’s almost a certitude of inflaming the world against us if we intervene.
“And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don’t think it, I know it. But I can’t be for the war. I can’t find a reason to be for this war. I’ve looked, and I can’t, so I?m not. The people who are backing this war are more interested in their own ideology than what’s good for the country. It’s not about America. Which is scary.”
Chris Matthews making sense? I must be hallucinating.
It would be useful to tell the president that if he didn’t already know it, and if Iraq being a danger was the genuine motive for this war.
People in power are always more interested in their own ideology than what’s good for their people. Sometimes we get lucky when their ideology coincides with what’s good for the people.
Chris Matthews got cuter, somehow. Guess I just have a soft spot for Irish blow-hards with gin blossoms.
Ditto, though, on the whole ideology thing.
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