Memories

Over at TPMcafe there's some discussion of gaggles missing from the White House web site. It's a bit strange, though I'm not sure if it necessarily means anything. It did prompt me to read one of them, found here. In it, Ari Fleischer reminds us of why we had to go to war in Iraq. It's almost quaint.

But there's a bigger picture here, and this is what's fundamental -- the case for war against Iraq was based on the threat that Saddam Hussein posed because of his possession of weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological, and his efforts to reconstitute a nuclear program. In 1991, everybody in the world underestimated how close he was to getting a nuclear weapon. The case for going to war against Saddam is as just today as it was the day the President gave that speech.

And I'd almost started to believe that it had all been about spreading peeance and freeance. Thanks for the reminder, Ari. Maybe someone should tell the press.