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From this post on Talking Points Memo. Read the whole post to find out, from someone who should know, one instance of how politicians from both sides of the aisle can sit together and bail each other out.
This from one of the linked items I found refreshingly honest:
...more evidence of how many questions the intelligence community had about pretty much all the evidence of Iraqi WMD during the lead-up to the war ... (also) the secret British memo, which came to light in the final days of the recent British election, which suggested that almost a year before the start of the war the US was shaping the available intelligence to make the case for war.We knew that didn't we. Yet all inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic leave everyone involved unscathed.
From this post on Talking Points Memo. Read the whole post to find out, from someone who should know, one instance of how politicians from both sides of the aisle can sit together and bail each other out.
This from one of the linked items I found refreshingly honest:
They lied, so what!But Thomas Patrick Carroll, a former officer in the Clandestine Service of the CIA, suggests in the conservative Front Page Magazine that those dwelling on the memo may be missing the forest for the trees.
It is simply inexcusable for opinion makers and public intellectuals (e.g., those who made such a fuss about the 'revelations' in the Downing Street memo) not to grasp the strategic imperatives behind what we are doing in Iraq and elsewhere. It's certainly okay to disagree with our strategy, but for supposedly sophisticated commentators to miss the entire point and continue raving about WMD and UN sanctions is simply beyond the pale.
