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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
G. Harlan Reynolds, conspicuously committed to The Truth, indulges in a bout of (self-)righteous outrage over Scott Ritter's decision to confine his answer to a Time interviewer's question to manageable length. When Ritter concludes his answer by saying "Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there [at an Iraqi prison for the children of dissidents] because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace," Reynolds likens Ritter to Soviet and Khmer apologists, and charges that "SCOTT RITTER SAYS THAT "WAGING PEACE" IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN TRUTH."
Should those tightwads over at the New York Sun ever come through with his check, The Professor may want to apply the funds toward the purchase of a pair of reading glasses, his ocular faculties apparently too weak to make out the word "horrible" or the entire sentence - "It was a horrific scene" - preceding the excerpted lines.