The Big Lie

Watch for it. Starting at the 2:37 mark, Juan Williams repeats the big lie about the Bush/Cheney administration:

"It's a repudiation of the Bush/Cheney administration .... that there should be some consideration given to working in a collaborative fashion with other countries around the world...."

Bush did that, Juan. In contrast to their support for Bill Clinton and the war in the Balkans, the UN wimped out. Bush assembled a coalition of thirty states willing to assist in toppling Saddam Hussein. Bush Senior also formed a coalition, Operation Desert Storm, for the first Gulf war in 1991.

Funny that none of the other participants on the panel, including the host, called Williams on his rote repetition of the Big Lie, but I guess it wasn't about Iraq. It was about Nobel laureate, Barack Obama. I liked Liz Cheney's suggestion about sending a mother of fallen US soldier to accept the prize on behalf of the US military. I also liked Bill Kristol's long list of UN corruption. The notion that a UN resolution makes any country's action "illegal", especially considering its own record, is laughable. All Bush needed was the authority given to the POTUS by the American Congress, which was granted in the bill signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998 - the Iraq Liberation Act.

Maybe Juan should be required to review these videos from Gulf War I:





I wonder what happened to those men. I hope to God they weren't returned to Papa Saddam's care after the war was over.