President Bush: Six impossible things, all before breakfast

[Mrs. Venation]

About half of all Americans still embrace the many surreal policies of Bush/ Cheney, and a recent morning - as this is written - it occurred to me how they do it. Like the queen in "Alice in Wonder-land," they've perfected the art of believing six impossible things before breakfast. To refresh your memory of the Lewis Carroll classic, here's an excerpt:

"Alice laughed, 'There's no use trying,' she said, 'one can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. 'When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' "

I decided to give it a try. Here they are, six impossible things before breakfast.

Saddam Hussein is/was the most dangerous man on earth since Hitler. It's impossible to believe, given new revelations that Pakistan's most famous scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, not only gave Pakistan the bomb but supplied nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, Iran and others.

Yet there's been hardly a peep from Bush against Pakistan's national hero, even as Khan's boss, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, publicly pardoned him. Thanks to Khan, several nations now have nukes. Still, read our leaders' lips, and it's possible to believe Saddam, not Khan, was the world's most dangerous man.

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