February 26, 2003

Bill Maher is an idiot

He is currently sharing his insights with Larry King on CNN. Among his many silly reasons for not going to war against Iraq is his claim that it will look to the world like settling a score. Is this a bad thing? It might slow the hand of a Third World nutcase or pan-Arabist fanatic to learn that enemies of America will be thrown against the wall not once but repeatedly, until they sort themselves out.

His other main argument, of course, is the anti-war classic: there's no evidence that Saddam Hussein has weapons, and besides, if we go to war, he'll kill lots and lots of soldiers and civilians with the weapons that we just asserted he doesn't have. This brings to mind a favourite lawyer joke:
Q. How do you stop a lawyer from drowning?
A. You shoot him.
How can you tell a psychopathic dictator is just bluffing?

Posted by Clio at February 26, 2003 08:16 PM