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Thursday, February 05, 2004
George Tenet Speaks UpAt last. He denies feeling pressure from the White House. OK. But the vague and finally accurate assessment that Iraq was not ready (yet) to bomb us through terrorist fronts was what we read in newspapers before the war. It supported the case for waiting — or changing tactics — until we had broad UN support. The White House didn't listen. A measured assessment of why can be read in Josh Marshall's New Yorker piece about the new imperialism. Andrew Sullivan's hysterical (and flat wrong) reaction is here.
Why does Sullivan insist on saying "Democrats" behave as if 9/11 never happened? He's wrong about that, and he knows he is. Some Democrats who behave that way are out there, but I don't know any. As Matt Welch writes in this terrific post about the "tax-and-spend librul," the caricature may be in need of an update.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
11:22 PM
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