Drum on Iraq Lies
Wish I'd said that. Well, I did. But Drum does it better by actually, you know, filling in the details. A nice job, as usual.
Insty & co. can keep repeating the mantra about agreeing with the final conclusion of he majority of the intelligence community until the WMDs come home, but it's just irrelevant. The preponderance of evidence currently available to us clearly indicates that the administration deceived us about the nature and strength of pre-war intelligence about Iraq--deceived us about many of the relevant details, even if some of their main conclusions roughly coincided with the (carefully filtered) conclusions of many intelligence professionals.
Unless Bush's ideological bodyguards can come up with something new, we're right and they're wrong. As it stands right now the only tools they have left are sophistry, repetition, and misdirection. We've got facts and logic on our side. Sure, that means we're probably outgunned, but at least we've got a fighting chance.
On the bright side, it's becoming increasingly clear that the Bush rear guard is getting scared and desperate. They've played the patriotism card, and now they're trying the transparently absurd shouldn't we be focusing on al Qaeda instead of administration chicanery? ploy, as if these were mutually exclusive things.
Well, they aren't. And, furthermore, let's not forget: if not for administration chicanery with regard to Iraq, we would have killed bin Laden at Tora Bora and al Qaeda would likely be a dim memory by now. But they thought it more important to shift resources to Iraq than to, you know, actually get the guys who attacked us on 9/11.
Bush is like an incompetent doctor who lied to trick you into undergoing a dangerous and unnecessary procedure, ignoring an actual and pressing health problem. Then he botches the procedure anyway. Then when you accuse him of malpractice he says "shouldn't you be worried about that health problem of yours instead of seeking just compensation for my life-threatening screw up?"
Answer: no. You should be doing both. Those things are in no way mutually exclusive. Oh, and the most important thing you need to do is get a different doctor.
A competent one this time.
Wish I'd said that. Well, I did. But Drum does it better by actually, you know, filling in the details. A nice job, as usual.
Insty & co. can keep repeating the mantra about agreeing with the final conclusion of he majority of the intelligence community until the WMDs come home, but it's just irrelevant. The preponderance of evidence currently available to us clearly indicates that the administration deceived us about the nature and strength of pre-war intelligence about Iraq--deceived us about many of the relevant details, even if some of their main conclusions roughly coincided with the (carefully filtered) conclusions of many intelligence professionals.
Unless Bush's ideological bodyguards can come up with something new, we're right and they're wrong. As it stands right now the only tools they have left are sophistry, repetition, and misdirection. We've got facts and logic on our side. Sure, that means we're probably outgunned, but at least we've got a fighting chance.
On the bright side, it's becoming increasingly clear that the Bush rear guard is getting scared and desperate. They've played the patriotism card, and now they're trying the transparently absurd shouldn't we be focusing on al Qaeda instead of administration chicanery? ploy, as if these were mutually exclusive things.
Well, they aren't. And, furthermore, let's not forget: if not for administration chicanery with regard to Iraq, we would have killed bin Laden at Tora Bora and al Qaeda would likely be a dim memory by now. But they thought it more important to shift resources to Iraq than to, you know, actually get the guys who attacked us on 9/11.
Bush is like an incompetent doctor who lied to trick you into undergoing a dangerous and unnecessary procedure, ignoring an actual and pressing health problem. Then he botches the procedure anyway. Then when you accuse him of malpractice he says "shouldn't you be worried about that health problem of yours instead of seeking just compensation for my life-threatening screw up?"
Answer: no. You should be doing both. Those things are in no way mutually exclusive. Oh, and the most important thing you need to do is get a different doctor.
A competent one this time.
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