Friday, November 11, 2005
Who Is Lying About Iraq, Part 2
RealClearPolitics' Tom Bevan notes a boilerplate girly-patting of Norm Podhoretz' tour-de-force as he wraps up the argument for action on Iraq:
In the end, the story of the run-up to the Iraq war is about intelligence, but not in the way most people think. Intelligence is always flawed and imprecise, even more so when you're dealing with a closed, paranoid and authoritarian regime like Hussein's. It's foolish to suggest Bush should have bucked consensus estimates on Iraq WMD built from more than a decade of intel, and it's even worse to suggest he lied for not doing so.
What President Bush did instead was put an end to the decade-long guessing game and place the burden squarely on Saddam Hussein by saying in front of the world: "This is what we think you have. It's now your responsibility to prove us wrong." In the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack in the history of America, it was absolutely the right thing to do.
Unless you're an idiot, in which case you should go here and read the comments, 'cause you'll love 'em. No-one need insult these fools; they do well enough on their own.
Also, note Rick Moran's American Thinker article on the CIA's campaign against George W. Bush. Come on, Porter Goss, let's purge the organization.
In the end, the story of the run-up to the Iraq war is about intelligence, but not in the way most people think. Intelligence is always flawed and imprecise, even more so when you're dealing with a closed, paranoid and authoritarian regime like Hussein's. It's foolish to suggest Bush should have bucked consensus estimates on Iraq WMD built from more than a decade of intel, and it's even worse to suggest he lied for not doing so.
What President Bush did instead was put an end to the decade-long guessing game and place the burden squarely on Saddam Hussein by saying in front of the world: "This is what we think you have. It's now your responsibility to prove us wrong." In the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack in the history of America, it was absolutely the right thing to do.
Unless you're an idiot, in which case you should go here and read the comments, 'cause you'll love 'em. No-one need insult these fools; they do well enough on their own.
Also, note Rick Moran's American Thinker article on the CIA's campaign against George W. Bush. Come on, Porter Goss, let's purge the organization.
