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[pantryslut]

"We cannot speculate until we know." -- Condoleeza Rice, from her NPR interview earlier this week.

Take a moment to contemplate the koan-like absurdity of such a statement.

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[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Although one might also observe it hasn't stopped them so far.

Breaking news in the UK as I type this ... some senior Whitehall wonk has said it out loud. They aren't going to find WMDs, so now they're looking for evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons programme. Constrast this with the sweaty sincere one only yesterday, or was it the day before, saying, with that messianic glint in his eye, that WMDs will be found (you'll see, I was right, etc. Cut to my previous comments about TB's 'mission'. The man is barking mad.)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Condie was actually responding to a question about whether or not the US would be sending troops to Liberia. It was presumably code for "our foreign policy isn't tooled to handle situations like this, let me get back to you next week."

But the context is blissfully unimportant. We cannot speculate until we know. Except when we can speculate, because we cannot know. Or when we can speculate, because we know otherwise but don't want to admit it. Or when we can speculate because it makes a better story than the truth. Or when we can speculate, but you can't.

My head hurts.