The $500 ice cream cone.

I just watched Lieberman, now watching Scott McLellan.

They are just hammering to death the meme "the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein captured."

I keep repeating to myself the phrase "$500 ice cream cone."

:shrug:

Refered to Saddam (or more specifically his capture) as a $500 ice cream cone.

Who doesn't like ice cream? Yummy. Wouldn't you like to have some? Sure! Everyone agrees ice cream cones are great.

What if i offered you one that cost $500?

That's Saddam.

On edit: This is a critical couter-meme. Yes Saddam was dangerous. A little (Bill Maher called him the "Mayor of Baghdad"). But did the minor threat he posed warrant $200 billion and the better part of the most powerful, technological army on earth bringing him down?

I want "$500 ice cream cone" to be on the lips of every media pundit and Dean supporter. Ice cream is good but not THAT good! It's just not worth it.

I thought you were talking about Halliburton and their food (cough, trough) line for our troops there for a second.

I'll have to remember that.

I think he (she?) was the first to use it here. Great way to make the point quickly, isn't it?