Liberal Blogosphere Tour, Part III

Liberal Blogosphere Tour, Part III - As part of my continuing tour of lefty blogs, I visited the Daily Kos.

Kos is better than the typical run of the mill lefty blogger; if nothing else, he hatched the "Political State Report", a very ambitious group blog that strives get at least one blogger from each party, from each state in the union. Naturally, since it's a Kos project, the contributors swing firmly left (I contribute occasionally), but it's a good effort.

But Kos himself continues to illustrate "Berg's Law of Liberal Iraq Commentary" (see the top right of this blog) in this post, which quotes a cite from a post by Tom Tomorrow (a mediocre cartoonist whose blog is very popular on the left):

The Congressional resolution authorizing Bush's War required the president to certify to Congress that war was necessary. Part of that letter (the full one is at Tom's site):

(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

In other words, Bush is certifying that Iraq had a role in the 9-11 attacks, thus justifying the subsequent invasion.

Remember Berg's Law: Liberals are incapable of addressing more than one of the justifications for war at a given time; in this case, Kos/Tomorrow don't even address one justification entirely. Iraq's involvement with Al Quada is irrelevant; their involvement with terror at large (not to mention WMDs, flouting of UN resolutions, and human rights record) were.

Kos goes on to print an email from a reader who defended (apparently reluctantly) the Bush statement. He responded:

It should be obvious (to me, especially) that the Bush administration is masterful at crafting language that seems to say one thing while saying another.

When you've already decided what the President is saying - as in, back in November of 2000 - then that's going to happen.

Posted by Mitch at September 18, 2003 07:32 AM