So here's a bit on July 9th from Iranian Girl: "You know, a while ago I read somewhere that Iranians always do something when nobody expect & It's impossible to mark a day to make a revolution, revolution will be made itself suddenly. Now I feel that it's somehow right, perhaps most of people made a mistake!" Yes, perhaps too much importance was placed on July 9th by those of us watching, but the whole thing has never been about July 9th, it's been about Iranian Freedom, and that is still a going concern, despite what did or did not happen yesterday.
oooo-kay. Here's an insane statement: "I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are." This is a statement by Ari Fleischer taken from an article in the NY Times. Why does Mr. Fleischer believe that people who think Saddam didn't have the WMD (that Mr. Fleischer and Bush claimed he had) should be the people to prove that he did have them? Isn't that, like, just the opposite of what should be going on? The burden of proof is on Fleischer and Bush and the administration, not on the people who never believed it in the first place. I can only hope that Mr. Fleischer misspoke, or had too many cups of coffee, or something. Thanks to Arthur Silber for pointing out Mr. Fleischer's logic-defying statement.
Sick thought: Fleischer is asking people to prove a negative. This is the same thing that conservative Christians do when confronted by people who don't believe in God: "Well, prove that he doesn't exist!" It's a stance taken by people who are not secure in their beliefs, because the existence of God cannot be proved or disproved, it's a matter of faith. No Christian who truly believes in God would ever be so insecure as to ask someone to disprove God. So this implies, to me, one of two things. Either Fleischer is very insecure in his belief of WMD (likely) or he thinks the WMD are God... wait... my thinking got muddled somewhere in there... or that faith in the Administration's stance is more important than any actual proof (only likely if Bush is trying to set up a Theocracy). Either way, Fleischer's statement reflects very badly on the Bush Administration.
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