Playing the Canadian Card

Washington, District of Columbia
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Intrepid White House correspondent Russell Mokhiber once again nails Bu$hCo mouthpiece little Scottie McLellan, this time by playing the Canadian 'indictment' card:

Mokhiber: Kofi Annan in September said that the Iraq war is an illegal war. If it is an illegal war, then the 100,000 who have died there – according to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health – are victims of war crimes. Now, the President is going to Canada later this year. And the largest circulation newspaper in Canada (the Toronto Star) printed a column yesterday titled “Should Canada Indict Bush?” – raising the question of a war crimes prosecution. They have a war crimes law in Canada. And I’m wondering –

Scott McLellan: Do you have a question or is it just a statement of opinion?

Mokhiber: No, this is the question. Has the White House counsel looked at the President’s legal exposure to a war crimes prosecution?

Scott McLellan: It is a ridiculous question that you bring up. You were out on the Nader campaign at the time that this issue came up. It was addressed at that time. And I’m not going to go through it again.

Perhaps Scottie has been trapped in Jimmy Darren's Time Tunnel for the last two weeks, because, as far as we know, the Nader campaign ended long before 'yesterday' which, as Mr. Mokhiber rightly points out, was when the Star piece by Tom Walkhom was published.