I’ve been thinking about this all day…

I was watching CNN this afternoon and I thought I heard Ari Fleischer say that the White House supported regime change by any means necessary, including advocated assassination. I was on the way out and couldn’t check the facts at the time.

I’ve since had a chance to look at the briefing transcript, and the exact exchange was:

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Question: Ari, could I just clarify the one bullet line — is the White House from this podium advocating the assassination of Saddam Hussein by his own people, by his military?

Fleischer: No, the question was about potential costs and different scenarios for costs. And I just cited the fact that Saddam Hussein has survived as a result of the repression and suppression of his own people, and that’s a reality about what life is like inside Iraq.

Question: But I’m not asking you a question about costs. I’m asking you if you intend to advocate from that podium that some Iraqi person put a bullet in his head?

Fleischer: Regime change is welcome in whatever form that it takes.

Question: So the answer is, yes?

Fleischer: Thank you. Regime change is welcome in whatever form it takes. (speech ends abruptly)
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I’d like to get some of the high-grade crack floating around the White House, because they must all be smoking it by the handful.

They’re in the middle of trying to convince allies, the UN, other middle-eastern countries, concerned Republicans, many Democrats, Bo and Luke Duke, and whoever else is questioning the war on Iraq…

Come on… (by the way, I can’t properly describe how intensely funny I find it that this site even exists)