The So-Called Liberal Press

Once upon a time, a candidate for president took credit for passing legislation that helped to bring about the transformation of the government/military Arpanet into the World Wide Web. The press ridiculed Al Gore for claiming to have invented the Internet. When he mentioned that he had met with the Director of FEMA after a natural disaster, the press pointed out what a fool he was for actually having met with the Assistant Director.
But when Republican Presidential seeker Mitt "flip-flop" Romney has the following exchange, the "Liberal" press somehow gives him a pass.

"Governor Romney, I wanted to start by asking you a question on which every American has formed an opinion.
We have lost 3,400 troops, civilian casualties are even higher, and the Iraqi government does not appear ready to provide for the security of its own country. Knowing everything you know right now, was it a mistake for us to invade Iraq?"

MITT ROMNEY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: "Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that -- or a null set -- that is that if you're saying let's turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in."

Okay, where do we start? The question is not a "non sequitur", genius. Nor is it a "null set". Also, in case you were so busy protecting gay rights and upholding gun laws in Massachusetts that you didn't notice, the IAEA and UN weapons inspectors were in Iraq until we told them to get out as we were about to invade despite their inability to find ANY weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq government even turned over thousands of pages of documents and CD-ROMs concerning their weapons programs, or lack thereof, but we ignored them for the sake of propaganda.
But perhaps Mr. Romney's confusion is due to the success of that propaganda. When you consider the input from the Vice-Presidents office, and his Chief of Staff "Scooter" Libby, the propaganda machine becomes more obvious. Libby's specialty at the time of the first Gulf War was weapons of mass destruction and according to the Washington Post profile on him, "his portfolio included the biological and chemical capabilities of Saddam Hussein." Thus it would be inconceivable that Libby did not know about the massive destruction of Saddam's chemical weaponry at Khamisaya near Baghdad in Gulf War I. According to government documents, covered up initially, but ultimately admitted to due to the insistence that Gulf War Syndrome was caused by some exposure to chemical weapons, the US destroyed 6,240 155mm mustard- gas filled artillery shells. Another 2,160 sarin filled 122mm rockets were also destroyed in these explosions. So much for Saddams WMD.
Mitt, you are a liar and a scoundrel and undeserving of anyones support for higher office. The perfect Republican candidate for president in 2008.