March 26, 2004

What an ASSHOLE.

Posted By Chris Crosby at 6:25 PM

A lot of people are pissed off about this. And for good reason, I think.

And some other people are saying "lighten up, pissed-off people! He was just joking! Humor is subjective, y'know!" And I think these people are wrong.

It's one thing to joke about something you're famous for that's relatively harmless, like eating too many Big Macs or being a peanut farmer or disliking broccoli or whatever. If Bush was most famous for always falling into a big vat of sliced pickles, he could've shown a picture of him falling into a sliced pickle vat and said "UH OH NOT AGAIN!" and the big laugh he receives would be perfectly justified. Nobody died 'cause Our Wacky Prez is always tripping into sliced pickles!

But people DIED, lots of people, because one man (Our Wacky Prez) was convinced enough that Saddam had weapons of destruction to actually invade Iraq, to start a big ol' war. Whether or not the Iraq war was a good idea or not as a basic concept (the jury's still out on that one), it doesn't matter. The whole thing was about WMDs. It wasn't about liberation or reshaping the middle east, or any other thing. I know this because President Bush said it all the time. He said if Saddam would disarm, there would be no war. It was Saddam's choice, he said. Saddam couldn't convince Bush that he had disarmed, so there was a war.

Countless thousands of human beings (at least 10,000) were killed and wounded as a result. And sure, maybe their sacrifices will turn out to be more than worth it, ten or twenty or a hundred years from now. We don't know. All we know is that a guy took us to war because he thought another guy had weapons that we now think he did not have.

And he never even APOLOGIZED for the error.

But now he's making STUPID JOKES about it. (Why would he think the weapons of mass destruction would be in the Oval Office? That doesn't even make DUMB JOKE-SENSE.)

It's almost like, if a year after 9-11, he went to some jokey dinner and put a picture on the screen of the WTC towers in flames, and said "WHOOPS!"

What an ASSHOLE.
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