"A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its boots on." - Winston Churchill

This cartoon is in the Western Star this morning. And Gwynne Dyer's column (no link) savages Paul Wolfowitz for his "cynical" remarks to a Vanity Fair interviewer: "...for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason."

Wolfowitz's actual remarks, of course, weren't nearly as damning. (Basically, he said there were several compelling reasons for taking down Saddam, and the WMD issue was believed to be the most compelling.) Dyer is undoubtedly familiar with the controversy over the way his remarks were taken out of context, and it looks like he just doesn't care. I guess he'll be using the even more fraudulent "Iraq sits on a sea of oil" quote next. (If he won't, some of the lefties who regularly pollute the Star's letters page will.)

Dyer also predicts another American war before the next election, "with the U.S. economy unlikely to recover dramatically in the next year." Well, you can believe Gwynne Dyer (who also predicted the battle of Baghdad would become a "Stalingrad" for the Americans, and that Ariel Sharon would use the war as an excuse to expel the Palestinians) or Alan Greenspan, who says a "fairly marked turnaround" in the sluggish U.S. economy is imminent.

Anyone want to help me start a campaign to get the Star to replace Dyer with Charles Krauthammer?

Posted by damian at June 6, 2003 06:54 AM