The Sleep Time And Rise "n" Shine Thread: A Laughing Airheaded Fool

From Think Progress creator Faiz Shakir, the latest unfortunate ignorance (and to be honest, stupidity) from White House press secretary Dana Perino, when asked why Bush did not agree to sign onto the Cluster Bomb Treaty:

Today in Oslo, Norway, over 100 countries began signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The nations signing the cluster bomb treaty argue that the unexploded munitions pose a “deadly hazard to children, farmers and others long after a conflict ends.” In a surprising last-minute change of policy, Afghanistan agreed to join the treaty.

Russia and the U.S. remain two of the key holdouts to the agreement. Today during the White House press briefing, veteran reporter Helen Thomas pressed spokeswoman Dana Perino to explain the Bush administration’s opposition:THOMAS: Is the President going to sign the anti-cluster bomb treaty? Apparently this is –

PERINO: Right, this is a treaty that was passed out of the U.N. Security Council several months ago. We said then that, no, we would not be signing on to it. And so I think that the signing is actually — we did not participate in the passage of it, and therefore we’re not going to sign it either.

THOMAS: Why not?

PERINO: What I have forgotten is all the reasons why, and so I’ll get it for you. (Laughter.)

As Shakir notes, only the United State and Russia have opposed signing the important bill. So cik, and so crazy, indeed.