Alterman quip

[Michael Pollak <mpollak@xxxxxxxxx>]

   URL: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040112&s=alterman

   George W. ("You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and
   Saddam when you talk about the war on terror") Bush cannot pretend to
   defend deceiving the nation into war anymore. When ABC's Diane Sawyer
   pressed him in an interview about whether Saddam possessed weapons of
   mass destruction or merely would have liked to have them, Bush replied
   contemptuously, "What's the difference?" (Try this, Mr. President: "I
   shot that man, Your Honor, because he pointed a gun at me and was
   about to pull the trigger," or "I shot that man, Your Honor, because
   he looked like he was thinking about getting a gun.")