Here and There, Jan. 16

As I've written before, "everything in Brussels is little". That would also include the politicians' moral compass.

Scheer Dishonesty Robert Scheer, in this week's display of intellectual dishonesty, says

Headlines tell us that United Nations arms inspectors have failed to find a "smoking gun" in their ongoing, unimpeded search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Yet the Bush administration, like a peeved child, has treated what should be good news as nothing more than rain on its war parade.

But even the UN's Blix says the standard that Iraq must meet is to provide sufficient evidence that it has destroyed the weapons programs that it was known to have had earlier, and that Iraq has failed to do even this much. Scheer conveniently neglects to mention this, just as he always spins Saddam's pronouncements in the most positive light imaginable. Like when he triumphantly repeated the lie that Saddam had accepted "unconditional inspections", and never followed up with a correction when there turned out to be all kinds of conditions on those unconditional inspections after all.

Today Blix has confirmed that Iraq has violated UN import bans, and weapons inspectors have found chemical warheads. Saddam's Santa Monica spokesman will no doubt find a way to use this information to ridicule George W Bush

And the Punning Pundit doesn't think very highly of some of Gray Davis' budget choices, either.

Congratulations on the launch of GlennReynolds.com

For the Children: The Prism Group reports on Palestinian child abuse.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 16, 2003 07:01 AM