Item 1: President Bush stated flatly on Monday that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction program and rejected the idea of Washington’s credibility being at stake in the search for banned arms.
Item 2: The United States sees a high probability the clandestine al Qaeda network will try to launch a chemical, biological or nuclear attack within two years, the U.S. government said in a report made public on Monday.
My immediate reaction is that this is the beginning of some serious PR work by Karl Rove to combat the obvious negatives of what’s happening in the Middle East.
To which one fairly intelligent individual said: “Well that is… like… Ah… pinpoint accuracy. I think the next time the Feds wants me to pay my taxes I will tell them that they can expect me to file a return sometime in the next 2 years… maybe… probably… kind’a depends on a lot’ta things… I guess it would be best tho if they just continue as if I wasn’t going to pay my taxes at all, otherwise they might be caught flat footed! And one of the problems I have with filing my tax returns is that I might have made money but I’m not sure because the people who keep track of these kind’sa things for me are giving me the wrong information all the time… but I can’t tell the auditors who these people are because they have all moved into a new organization where it is forbidden, for safety’s sake, to reveal who is doing the books for who.”