Mistakes Can Be Embarassing... Or They Can Be Deadly

A school in Utah thought it had booked comedian/Daily Show host Jon Stewart to host a gala fundraising event. Pretty cool grab for a small school out in the middle of nowhere, eh? It's also something of an interesting choice, considering that Stewart is one of the most liberal people on TV nowadays and regularly skewers President Bush. Utah, on the other hand, is, well, Utah. They don't make 'em anymore conservative than that. Bush twice carried Utah with margins larger than any other state's, and the President continues to enjoy solid support among the state's population.

The problem arose when someone finally realized that the school had booked former pro wrestler turned motivational speaker Jon A. Stewart from Chicago.

Oopsies.

One has to wonder how anyone could have been stupid enough to make a mistake like that. Well, there's a simple one word answer for that question:

Utah.

Sorry if that sounds unduly harsh, but it continues to baffle me that there are still people in this country who continue to respect and believe in President Bush. What will it take for those folks to realize the error of their ways and hang their heads in shame?

Perhaps these latest revelations about the justification for the war will do it.

Back on May 29, 2003, Bush made the bold announcement that "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." The reference was to the trailers that Colin Powell had cited in his U.N. address three months earlier. They had finally been located and confirmed to be laboratories for the manufacture of deadly biological weapons. Other administration officials kept pointing to the trailers as justification for the war for months afterwards (Graphics).

One slight problem: A U.S. Army team had already examined the trailers and sent a report to Washington saying that they had NOT been used or even designed for the manufacture of biological weapons. So what were they made for? Well, one of the experts called the trailers "the biggest sand toilets in the world."

Appropriate, since that's basically what this administration fed the American people in its build up for the war.