SIVACRACY.NET: The Plaid Adder

This women is an amazing writer. Her latest Democratic Underground column, entitled "The Immoderator," is here. Here is an excerpt:

PLAIDDER: Mr. President, you have repeatedly said that you would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein even if you had known then that he did not have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, that his nuclear capability had actually been declining since the onset of the U.N. inspections, and that he was not an imminent threat to the United States - despite the fact that you and even Vice President Cheney are now admitting that there is no connection between Iraq and September 11. Are there any circumstances under which you wouldn't have gone to war against Saddam Hussein following September 11?

BUSH: Saddam Hussein was a bad man. The world is better off with him out of power.

PLAIDDER: That's not an answer to the question, Mr. President.

There is a long pause while BUSH blinks rapidly.

BUSH: Could you repeat the question?

PLAIDDER: What I'm asking you is whether you were determined to attack Iraq after September 11 regardless of whether Saddam Hussein posed a real threat to the United States or not.

BUSH: Ah. OK. Gotcha. Yes, we were determined to attack Iraq after September 11. Because you see, Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction related program activities were a dire threat that could not have been contained by the U.N. inspections or any other...