The failure to keep America safe

[papau]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/31/the_failure_to_keep_america_safe/

The failure to keep America safe
By Robert Kuttner,co-editor of The American Prospect 3/31/2004

TWO PIVOTAL recent events should make a shambles of President Bush's contention right after 9/11 that a war on terrorism would be the defining mission of his presidency.

In late January David Kay, the president's own chief weapons inspector, admitted that no nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons were found in Iraq. That finally made it respectable to question the wisdom of the Iraq war.

Then, last week, the explosive testimony of the president's former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke invited intense discussion about whether the Bush administration had done enough to avert the 9/11 attack.

However, a third and even more important inference is seeping into public consciousness: The failure to protect the United States against terrorism is ongoing and directly related to Iraq. The Iraq detour has set back America's security in at least five mutually reinforcing ways:

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Isn't this what...

many of us have been saying for years?

So, is the message finally becoming respectable?

[indepat]

2. Every reasonably knowledgeable and thinking person knows the Iraq

detour has set back America's security in at least those five mutually reinforcing ways and every talking head that support GWB know that too. The only obvious conclusion is they love their neocon ideology much more than they love their country, its founding principles, its Constitution, even liberty and freedom itself.

[izzie]

3. You both sound right to me. Bush has made a mess.

And what country is going to ever believe Powell, he is gone. It will take this country years to live this down.We were better off with the 'children' running the White House.

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