Doug Kellner of Blogleft found this in The Independent:
In his note to the committee, written on 2 July, Sir John suggests that the change in the no-fly zone operations from defensive to offensive tactics last autumn was because the US and UK had already decided to “prepare the battlefield” by removing threats such as Iraq’s Silkworm missiles. “It points to a question that needs to be posed,” he wrote. “When was the decision taken to go to war? If this thesis bears examination, then the nation was committed to war in the late summer, early autumn of 2002.”
I don’t hate to say I told you so. I love it. See “Secretary Rumsfeld Drops Another Load on US” and “The Self-deception That Believes the Lie,” both in October of 2002.
Posted by Jerome Doolittle at August 26, 2003 06:44 PM
I have no trouble saying "I told you so" but it loses its satisfaction in this current 1984 world where Bush changes the official website by adding the world "major" to the term "combat operations" as if he made that distinction on his photo-op on the carrier.
The revised phrase was used the next day by a hapless "journalist" reciting the phrase --as changed-- to whore Frank Sesno (replacing Bill Moyers, fercrissakes! on NOW) as if Bush himself had not declared "Mission Accomplished" -- combat is over.
Given that type of Orwellian memory hole revisionism... like the change from weapons to weapons programs... spouted by the rightwing rabble from Fox Agitprop to Jack M., "I told you so" provides self satisfaction but is diluted. At least those of us who told it to each other can nod and wink at each other.
Posted by: Wayne on August 26, 2003 10:38 PMCouldn't agree more. It's all a shallow vindication where Americans troops have died and continue to be picked off at one or two a day. That terrorists from Al Quida were not affiliated with Iraq, but are sure there now. Iran annouced before, during, and recently the progress of it's own uranium enrichment program;I guess since they were open about their WMD program, Dubya was thrown off by their honesty. Asscroft is chomping at the bit to further erode our civil liberties. While Bush's numbers are slipping a little in the polls, fully 50% of the public(many across party lines) still support the liar-in- chief.......hell, put a Bush Lied Soldiers Died bumper sticker on your car where I live, you better be armed and have some new tires ready to replaced the slashed ones. Welcome to Wing-Nut Nation.
Posted by: Dudley on August 27, 2003 2:00 AMGreat blog!!
Posted by: roulette on December 23, 2003 1:27 AM