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TIME Do you think it was a failure of imagination that everybody thought Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction [WMD...
TIME When it turned out that there were no WMD stockpiles, did you think, We've got to do this differently going forward...
Bush acted. He declared war. Not just on terrorists--the old way--but on states as well. States that harbor terrorists, states that aid and abet terrorism, states that hunger for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It all looks obvious now. It was not then. It was new: radical, dangerous and absolutely necessary...
There is precedent for a puppet movie like Team America: World Police. It's only that none has ever been placed in hands as deviantly deft as those of South Park malefactors Trey Parker and Matt Stone. A crew of superhero marionettes (the old-fashioned kind) faces off against wmd-hoarding, four-letter-wording North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Some have already attacked the film for mocking the war on terrorism. But given the correctly impolitic attitudes of Parker and Stone, count on both left and right wings getting clipped. The trailer ballyhoos star names: "Alec Baldwin! ... Susan Sarandon...
General Franks delivered an Orwellian tour de force. In a single short interview, he blamed the Iraqis for their country's electricity shortage, even though the U.S. created the situation; said he is "very thankful" that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), even though this was one of the main justifications for the war; implied that the mere possibility that Saddam Hussein might have acquired WMD was a sufficient reason to go to war, even though such a broad premise would warrant attacking many other nations; and claimed that Saddam's regime was working with al-Qaeda...