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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (916)1/16/2004 12:51:31 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Hmmmm..... some folks want to give Kenneth Pollack a pass,
but use the same reasons to blame Bush.....

'Bush lied' and the lying liars who perpetuate it

....the online magazine Slate has been hosting an interesting discussion among the most respected and prominent liberals who supported the Iraq war. The question before them, more or less, is whether they regret it. Some do. Some don't. Most hold positions awash in shades of gray.

One of those is Kenneth Pollack, the former Clinton NSC staffer and author of the hugely influential book, "The Threatening Storm." Pollack's book was the most coherent and sustained case for the war from any quarter. Slate's round-robin is timed to coincide with a must-read cover story in the current issue of The Atlantic in which Pollack tries to figure out where he - and we - went wrong on WMDs.

Anyway, Pollack tells Slate, "If I had to write 'The Threatening Storm' over again I certainly would not have been so unequivocal that war was going to be a necessity."

In response, George Packer, a prominent liberal hawk, says, "Ken Pollack should be congratulated: How many leading voices on this issue have subjected themselves to such honest criticism? What he got wrong he got wrong because the intelligence was mistaken. What the administration got wrong it got wrong because it didn't care about the intelligence."

This encapsulates pretty much everything that's wrong with
even the White House's most respected critics: a nearly
total inability to consider the possibility that this
administration operated in good faith.

Packer says Pollack's mistake was based on the best
intelligence available; however, Bush & Co are a bunch of
bloodthirsty ideologues or greedy liars or both.
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