Saturday, July 10, 2004
Making the rounds...
Some stuff of note:
Kos has a check of the latest polling data. To end the suspense...Kerry leads close or comfortably in all of them...including Zogby and Rasmussen who've been the closest.
Iraqi hospitals are begging the US for more money. Of course I couldn't find this story in the US news. I had to head to the BBC for it.
The always excellent Kevin Drum talks today about the Senate Intelligence report on 9/11. The report is highly critical of the CIA..tries to absolve Bush and has a lot of big, black marker on it if you read the press copy. Drum points out:
Remember, this is what Paul Wolfowitz said in an interview last year about the reasons for going to war with Iraq:
....there have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is the criminal treatment of the Iraqi people....The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the Iraqis but it's not a reason to put American kids' lives at risk, certainly not on the scale we did it.
So #1 turned out to be wrong, #2 turned out to be wrong, and #3 wasn't a good enough reason by itself. Even by their own standards, there just wasn't a good reason to fight this war, and this is something that shouldn't get lost amid the ongoing and self-serving effort to pretend that it was really George Tenet who led us to war. Even a child can see that for the hokum that it is.
UPDATE: And add one more headline to the list: Saddam Hussein's military posed no threat to either regional stability or American interests.
Really, Democrats should stop whining about Jay Rockefeller signing off on this report and get to work publicizing what it actually says. Taken as a whole, it's fatally damning toward practically everything Bush said about Iraq before the war. It's Republicans who should be upset about this report, not Dems.
I don't have the energy to look up and write my own stuff today. I think I may have the flu.
Carry on.
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Kos has a check of the latest polling data. To end the suspense...Kerry leads close or comfortably in all of them...including Zogby and Rasmussen who've been the closest.
Iraqi hospitals are begging the US for more money. Of course I couldn't find this story in the US news. I had to head to the BBC for it.
The always excellent Kevin Drum talks today about the Senate Intelligence report on 9/11. The report is highly critical of the CIA..tries to absolve Bush and has a lot of big, black marker on it if you read the press copy. Drum points out:
Remember, this is what Paul Wolfowitz said in an interview last year about the reasons for going to war with Iraq:
....there have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is the criminal treatment of the Iraqi people....The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the Iraqis but it's not a reason to put American kids' lives at risk, certainly not on the scale we did it.
So #1 turned out to be wrong, #2 turned out to be wrong, and #3 wasn't a good enough reason by itself. Even by their own standards, there just wasn't a good reason to fight this war, and this is something that shouldn't get lost amid the ongoing and self-serving effort to pretend that it was really George Tenet who led us to war. Even a child can see that for the hokum that it is.
UPDATE: And add one more headline to the list: Saddam Hussein's military posed no threat to either regional stability or American interests.
Really, Democrats should stop whining about Jay Rockefeller signing off on this report and get to work publicizing what it actually says. Taken as a whole, it's fatally damning toward practically everything Bush said about Iraq before the war. It's Republicans who should be upset about this report, not Dems.
I don't have the energy to look up and write my own stuff today. I think I may have the flu.
Carry on.
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