This morning, I’ve imagined that I heard a continuing series of intermittent popping noises in the distance, as if someone were setting off firecrackers. I couldn’t figure out what they were until I read this editorial by James Kirchik in the Los Angeles Times that carried the title “Bush never lied to us about Iraq”> then it was clear.
All those popping sonds were the heads of various leftists exploding as they read an op-ed in a notoriously left-leaning newspaper by a writer for a notoriously left-leaning magazine. Here’s the most explosive bit of the whole piece.
Four years on from the first Senate Intelligence Committee report, war critics, old and newfangled, still don’t get that a lie is an act of deliberate, not unwitting, deception. If Democrats wish to contend they were “misled” into war, they should vent their spleen at the CIA.
In 2003, top Senate Democrats — not just Rockefeller but also Carl Levin, Clinton, Kerry and others — sounded just as alarmist. Conveniently, this month’s report, titled “Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information,” includes only statements by the executive branch. Had it scrutinized public statements of Democrats on the Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees — who have access to the same intelligence information as the president and his chief advisors — many senators would be unable to distinguish their own words from what they today characterize as warmongering.
Like John Maclane McClane said in Die Hard, “Welcome to the party, pal!”
It’s nice to see someone in the “reality-based community” coming back to reality.
(via memeorandum)
I try to keep informed, but I don’t have time to read SenIntellComm reports numbering 172 pages long. I noticed that a National Review piece by Andrew McCarthy sharply criticized the report last week. Then, I saw the LA Times piece by an editor for a left-of-center publication, so I chimed in on a Townhall.com post referring to the same article. But I got roundly criticized for intellectualy laziness by two toads. One of them purported to read the 20 pages of conclusions provided on an MSNBC link.
Maybe they were a little sensitive because of the defection. Mistaken intelligence is a far cry from the hysteria about lying.
Bush is responsible for everything: EVERTHING. If he got bad intel, it was his intel agencies giving him bad data. He was warned about bin Laden in the PDB, he did nothing. Richard Clarke tried to talk to the shoe shopper (Rice) and was ignored. If it happend on Bush’s watch, it is his problem to solve.
Your president either lied to you or he was too stoopid to know they were lies. Either one you choose to believe makes Bush responsible. You idiots impeached Clinton over a private act. Why must you turn yuor head away from Bush’s catastophic failures? It is your money and treasure too.
Fred you dumb a$$. Clinton was impeached because he lied to a court of law and denied a woman due process, he was not, I repeat because you may be deaf, he was not impeached because he was cheating on his wife in the Oval Office of the White House with an employee half his age.
Come on, Fred. You have got to do better than that. Not only is part of what you said factually incorrect, but your memory seems to begin somewhere in 2003.
Wow! Another post on this? Do I revisit?
Nah.
BTW- Jimmie, it’s John McClane.
[...] James Kirchick Didn’t Get the Memo, Apparently June 16, 2008 I came across a post by fellow blogger Jimmie over at Sundrie’s Shack, in which he reported on an editorial in the [...]
Neocon alert!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick