Gregory Harris quotes guidance from the senior bush on the wisdom of invading Iraq, chasing down saddam, etc.
Of course, w, deep thinker that he is, adheres to the teenage rebels mantra if daddy said it than it must be wrong.
w asked, in a speach to the Australian parliament:
Who can possibly think that the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power?
Charles Kuffner has the best answer to this that I have seen so far:
That’s not the point
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The problem here is that this is the wrong question to be asked. It’s a meaningless question meant to distract us from looking at the implications of how we went about removing Saddam from power and what it has cost us in money, lives, missed opportunities, and international reputation.
Read it all. There is some good stuff in the comments as well.
Via Not Geniuses.
After reading this Financial Times article Tim Dunlop concludes :
If this is true, then my conslusion from that earlier post stands: if this is the case, this is a much more serious issue than the case of simply trying to smear and intimidate a dissenter (ie Joseph Wilson). This indicates a complete breakdown in trust between various government agencies.
Are the bushies really playing these kind of silly and dangerous to us games?
These drawings by children were collected over a 2-month period in May and June 2003 at the request of Carl Rosenstein and the Puffin Foundation.
A description of the project is here.
Via Sugarfused.
If this is it:
US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.
then the rebuilding effort is truly broken and misnamed.
This terrorism is not something that any legitimate government supports.
For more detail and links see Electrolite and Whiskey Bar. Be sure to read the comment threads.
Via Mark Kleiman.