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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Ah, the wonderful Steven Green (a/k/a Vodkapundit) spent last night "live-blogging Bush's speech." Green and like-minded warbloggers have insisted that the threatened war against the people of Iraq is all about disarming a Hitler-like tyrant of his weapons of mass destruction, and have sneered at even the suggestion that Iraq's formidable petro reserves at all figure in the unelected president's calculus. Despite identifying no less than three money quotes, Green lets this pass without comment
And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people. Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction against anyone, including the Iraqi people.
So after giving Hussein orders to vacate the country within 48 hours - an option not allowed Hitler - Bush gets around to instructing the Iraqis. Is it unreasonable to posit that his first instruction speaks to his first concern? posted by Anonymous8:30 AM
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