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May 28, 2003
Close, But No Cigar
Mo-Mo has almost admitted her missquote of Bush's "Al-Qaeda not a problem anymore"...sorta kinda in a way.
After the war, the triumphal administration bragged about its Iraqi, Taliban and Qaeda scalps, painting our enemies as being in retreat.
"Al Qaeda is on the run," the president said in Little Rock, Ark. "That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly, but surely, being decimated. Right now, about half of all the top Al Qaeda operatives are either jailed or dead. In either case, they're not a problem anymore."
She doesn't exactly admit that she was, shall we say WRONG, does she? But at least the entire quote is there, in context....I think. There may be a new day dawning at the NYTimes.
But Al Qaeda, it became horrifyingly clear a week later in Riyadh, was not decimated; it was sufficiently undecimated to murder 34 people, injure 200 and scare the daylights out of Americans everywhere.
Nah, probably not. That should read "scare the daylights out of Saudis everywhere".
Nothing new here, move along.
Posted by Rita at May 28, 2003 06:24 AM