Exactly at what point might Bush supporters agree to an empirical test, to say that X fact really does show that the Iraq war was miserably, incompetently executed, that this is not all a figment of the liberal mainstream media’s imagination?
You’d think the al QaQaa missing explosives would be it. For if Bush is right in saying the facts aren’t in and that we don’t know what happened to them, we’d still have to grant, as Brad DeLong suggests, “The fact that the Bush administration does not have a clue about when or where the 380 tons of explosives were moved demonstrates that the administration ‘did not adequately secure the country and was unprepared for the war’s aftermath.’” After all, we’re talking about what went on in a country we were invading precisely to keep munitions from getting into the hands of terrorists. And we certainly made sure no oil field went unguarded.
Every indication points to a war plan that wasn’t changed by September 11, but simply grafted September 11 onto goals and methods that well preceded it. Which would be bad enough without the President making smug jokes about Kerry finally understanding their were dangerous weapons in Iraq.
The way Republicans and FoxNews are bending over backward to deny and excuse this just proves they’re not serious about our defense but are merely more exercised about the aesthetic shock of having a “weak” Democrat in charge of foreign policy.
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