Wednesday, December 17

"What's The Difference?"

DIANE SAWYER: But let me try to ask — this could be a long question. ... ... When you take a look back, Vice President Cheney said there is no doubt, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, not programs, not intent. There is no doubt he has weapons of mass destruction...Again, the intelligence — the inspectors have said they can't confirm this, they can't corroborate.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yet.

DIANE SAWYER: — an active —

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yet.

DIANE SAWYER: Again, I'm just trying to ask, these are supporters, people who believed in the war who have asked the question.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, you can keep asking the question and my answer's gonna be the same. Saddam was a danger and the world is better off cause we got rid of him.

DIANE SAWYER: But stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still —

PRESIDENT BUSH: So what's the difference?
DIANE SAWYER: Well --- Uh --- (sputter) Uh, my line please?

HOFFMANIA: "SO YOU LOOKED RIGHT INTO THE CAMERAS LAST JANUARY AND YOU LIED TO CONGRESS, AND YOU LIED TO THE SENATE, AND YOU LIED TO AMERICA, AND YOU LIED TO THE WORLD TO RAMROD YOUR WAY INTO AN OIL-RICH COUNTRY, LEAVING ALMOST 500 AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND THOUSANDS OF IRAQI CITIZENS DEAD. AND YOU'RE SITTING IN FRONT OF ME SAYING YOU DON'T SEE WHAT DIFFERENCE THAT MAKES?"

Say it, Diane, you wuss. SAY IT. You drill the Dixie Chicks, but you let this guy get away with admitting he was lying. What a pitiful timid excuse for a journalist.