Letters to the Editor
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What will it change if they acknowledge it?
We all know this. Even people who supported the invasion know this but they just don't care.
Will it have an effect on political decisions to go to war? I doubt it. Gulf of Tonkin anyone?
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And this is news, why?
I'm losing patience with "outrage" over the status quo.
"Oh my god, the sun rose again today!"
Liberal websites would do well to start organizing dissent. Simply reporting what should be unacceptable on a regular basis does more to normalize this kind of behavior than it does to counter it.
Reporters might argue that it is their job to bring the public the truth, and what the public does with that is up to it. I understand this argument, but it is increasingly anachronistic. There is no party or mainstream media to organize the people -- on core civil liberty/checks-and-balances issues, these organs have joined with the obstacles to democracy and freedom. That leaves left-wing internet gathering points as the best tools for democratic revolt. I ask the managers of those gathering points: are you going to take the next step, or are you just faking your outrage?
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Brian - Seattle on what will change
We all know this. Even people who supported the invasion know this but they just don't care.
They may know it in the sense that someone in deep denial knows, on some level, that they're fooling themselves. But so long as they don't see it in print right there in front of them they can go on postponing the inevitable reckoning. It's basic human nature.
Bush and his people know this. They know that a substantial segment of the American body politic wants to believe that we did the right thing for the right reasons. "Show me where it says we were wrong," they say, and look — there is (technically) nothing to point to that says that we were wrong.
Bush may have "misstated" a few things, but misstatements happen to everyone, right? The news doesn't say, "President Bush lied again today when he said..." And now the military's own unflattering assessment can be waved away as simply being nonexistent.
Of course public disclosure requirements mean that they can't bury it completely. Instead they're mailing CDs, which is an absurdly expensive alternative and, I think, someone in the Pentagon's way of crying for help.
If I were in Congress I would use investigating that foolish expense as a pretext for getting to the bottom of the report's suppression.
Gulf of Tonkin anyone?
No thanks, had a late lunch.
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Nice Work, War Room
Now just wait another day or so and the whole embarrassing fiasco of the Clinton campaign's continued use of race-baiting and code-speak will slip out of the news cycle, once more, without your analysis.
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Vincent
How about starting a thread on Geraldine Ferraro's comments and the reactions to them? Alex wasn't able to get to it before he left for the day, but I'm sure it's on his "to do" list somewhere.
Thanks a bunch!
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"because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda,' Bush said."
In breaking news, Sadaam, from the grave, responded "I did not have sex with that terrorist"
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here's the report
don't wait for it to arrive in the mail - get it today!
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/JDF-Saddam-Report.pdf
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Down the memory hole... Again.
Because, we've always been at war with East Asia, er, Eurasia, er, reality...