Letters to the Editor
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When is it acceptable
for the ambassador to Iraq, one of the two sent to Capitol Hill to sell the surge, to reply that he is unable to assess HIS situation, even as he asks for the status quo to be extended?
Is there anyone in this administration willing to even PRETEND for a moment that they have real responsibilities, and that those responsibilities require real insight and real analysis that lead to REAL ANSWERS? Not to mention unfiltered facts.
It's bad enough that Alberto Gonzales claimed to be completely out of the loop in his own department, and to reply "I don't recall" to virtually every question ever put to him. But the consequences of his equivocating and well, lying, were far less bloody (although not less significant).
To have this diplomatic heavy hitter shrug his shoulders and say that he "can't say"...is just ridiculous. And in the case of Iraq...criminally negligent of the oversight of our interests up to and including the lives we are losing there daily.