Further demonstration why Bill Kristol should never use the word “evidence”

Two examples of Bill Kristol’s unbounded ability to be wrong about everything.

First, there’s this splendid example of fertile imbecility from 5 years ago:

“There’s been a certain amount of pop sociology in America … that the Shia can’t get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There’s almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq’s always been very secular.”

Of course, subsequent events proved Kristol to be a blathering ignoramus, as years of sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shia have taken tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, at its peak as many as 2,000 to 3,000 dying per month as ethnic cleansing of mixed Sunni-Shia neighborhoods was prosecuted without pity.

And from this week’s Kristol-spoor in the Weakly Standard, A Bush Rally Can he close strong in 2008? :

Crittenden’s response was the right one: to mock the effort [to point out Bush's failures and inadequacies], and to adduce the easily adduce-able evidence that Bush has been a pretty decent president.

Perhaps someone should point out to Mr. Kristol that “evidence” does not mean “whatever half-baked opinion a neocon fucktwit warmonger pulls out of his ass.”