Defenders of the administration have been claiming that there were
"overlapping reasons" for war. But this revisionist history is every bit as absurd as Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch.
The American people were sold a living breathing DANGEROUS Iraqi blue parrot. Now we get the thing home and discover the damn thing is dead and was nailed to its perch. Like the shopkeeper in the skit, the administration and its supporters claim the parrot is merely sleeping or that the administration described the parrot as blue and, sure enough, it is. Yeah, the Parrot is still blue, yeah it was once alive, yeah the parrot's dna could be cloned to produce another parrot and yeah the dead parrot probably would like to be alive. All well and good ....
But THE IRAQI BLUE PARROT IS DEAD!!! Deceased, pushing up the daisies, expired, extinct etc...
To make the situation even more absurd the PNAC shopkeepers offer to exchange our dead Iraqi blue parrot for either a Syrian red or an Iranian green. All the while a Korean black Parrot sits outside the shop window screaming obscenties and demanding crackers. Sheesh!!!