Andrew Card may be a notorious Bush hack, but I have to admire his creativity.
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card was in Albuquerque on Monday calling reports of missing explosives in Iraq an “old story,” and saying Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is exploiting the issue for political purposes.
“I don’t know why it’s been drug up now,” Card told reporters during a campaign swing in New Mexico. “I don’t give a lot of credibility to the story. The story is out there, it’s not new. It’s an old story rehashed.”
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“Yesterday’s news over and over again, that’s John Kerry’s role,” Card said. “He hasn’t talked too much about the future. He’s spent a lot of time dwelling on the past.”
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. The Bush administration is warned about a key weapons facility before the invasion, but they ignored the warnings. The facility had 377 tons of deadly explosives, which are now gone. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, took the unusual step on Monday of writing to the United Nations Security Council to report that the explosives were gone. The president, according to the White House press secretary, just found out about this within the last 10 days.
But none of this matters, says White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, because it’s an “old story.” See? The munitions were looted 18 months ago! What possible reason could we have to talk about it now? Never mind all the deadly explosives in the hands of insurgents and terrorists; let’s talk about “the future” and how safe Bush will make us.
The mind reels.