I know it's been said many times before, but I have no idea why anybody takes Instapundit seriously. Here's his latest pearl of wisdom (via
Atrios):
MOVING THE GOALPOSTS: Reader T.J. Lynn notes this passage from an article in the New York Times: "No stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction have been found since the invasion."
(Emphasis added.)
So that's the new standard, I guess -- and a tacit admission that WMD have been found. But unless Bush can produce "stockpiles" now, it'll have all been a lie, you see. . . .
Oh, those sneaky liberals! They're always trying to revise history, because they can't handle the fact that they were wrong, wrong, wrong about the Iraq war, which was clearly the greatest idea in history!
But as the Snarky Cat points out, the goalposts haven't been moved anywhere--except by folks on the Right. Here was Bush's statement on September 14, 2002:
Today this regime likely maintains stockpiles of chemical and biological agents, and is improving and expanding facilities capable of producing chemical and biological weapons.
Snarky Cat also has several more Bush administration quotations using the word "stockpile." It pretty much demolishes any "point" Insty might have had.
Matthew Yglesias has more thoughts on Insty's latest bit of hackery.
Of course, Bush was the one who most famously moved the goalposts, from "stockpiles of chemical and biological agents" to "weapons of mass destruction program-related activities." But he can be forgiven, because he's a Republican and thus is incapable of lying. If anyone on the other side tries to hold Bush accountable for what he said originally, however--well, then we're "moving the goalposts" like the lying liberals that we are.