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Monday, July 14, 2003
Fall GuyJosh Marshall, as you'd expect, is all over the story of George Tenet taking the fall for the White House's credibility problems. (Just keep reading him from the linked post on down.) Bush defenders from Donald Rumsfeld to Instapundit think the Niger-uranium thing is being blown way out of proportion — it wasn't the main reason we went to war, just a plank in the platform, etc. — and in a way they're right. We've known the Niger-uranium argument was bogus ever since March, before the invasion, and the scandal unfolding now is just a superficial, ready-for-prime-time placeholder for all the other things a certain leader has done wrong. But so was the case for war in Iraq.
Politics is a messy, inaccurate business. Most of us at Radio Free Mike saw through the trumped-up charges of weapons-hoarding last winter, but weren't sorry to see Saddam go; now we're content to let this administration twist in the wind. In a democracy you don't treat your citizens like babies in order to bring them to war. Liars get canned. That's the whole point of democracy, remember?
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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