There’s an old Saddam-era Iraqi joke about a journalist who asks Izzat Ibrahim, a senior Baath Party official, “Can elephants fly?” Izzat Ibrahim dismisses the question. “Of course not. What kind of person could believe that elephants can fly.” “But,” the journalist says, “Saddam Hussein said elephants can fly.” “Of course they can fly,” Izzat immediately says, “but only very slowly.”
Sometimes, partisan loyalty and obsequiousness to power twists logic.
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