In his ediorial on Yahoo, Rall is the first person I've seen actually mention the millions who protested agains Iraq Invasion. This hard hitting article against Bush is a treat to read, he doesn't pull his punches:
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Ted Rall -- STUPIDITY IS ALL AROUND
Hit the theme from the old Mary Tyler Moore show. New lyric: stupidity is what's all around.
By all rights Bush ought to be warming a prison cell right now. His own CIA (news - web sites)-employed weapons of mass destruction hunter, David Kay, has given up his WMD search, conceding that there are none. Kay, who supports both Bush and his preemptive wars, thinks Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) destroyed them all within six months after the end of the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), just as he was supposed to. "It turns out we were all wrong," Kay told the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites).
Well, not all of us. Not the millions of people who took to the streets to march against the war. But apparently they don't count.
In a case study of revisionism gone wild, the American media has embarked on a witch hunt against the CIA--the one intelligence outfit that repeatedly warned Bush's war cabinet that there was no solid evidence that Iraq (news - web sites) posed any kind of threat. "How could the nation's $40 billion-a-year intelligence apparatus, focused on Saddam's regime for more than a decade, have been so wrong?" chides USA Today. "How did the
make the leap from suspect intentions to bold claims of existing WMD programs?" asks Newsweek.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/uclicktext/20040206/cm_ucru/stupidityisallaround