Hypocrite

My spelling is terrible. To improve it, rather than using a spell-checker when I'm not sure about a word, I look it up in the dictionary. Under 'hypocrite', I was not surprised to find a picture of George Soros looking all serious and internationalist. Soros, who has always been a huge backer of meddling in the affairs of various messed-up nations (including the non-sactioned-by-the-UN bombing campaign of Serbia), gives this explanation for his fanatical opposition to the project in Iraq:

When the weapons of mass destruction could not be found, President Bush fell back on the justification of liberating Iraq from a heinous dictator and introducing democracy. That is indeed a noble cause, which could have justified the invasion if the president had made a case for it. But that was not the case that President Bush had presented to Congress, and presumably, Congress would not have endorsed it.

In other words, motives count more than deeds. Way to care about the suffering people of Iraq, George.

There's more hypocrisy in the link above, in which Matt Welch reviews three books by some of the big internationist players of the 90s'. Welch tries to figure out why they are so down on Iraq, when they were so quick to use or excuse force for their own goals. The only reason he can see is -- Bush, and his perceived refusal to grovel to the entrenched internationalist 'club'. Hypocrites all.

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at May 19, 2004 09:16 AM | TrackBack