--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Remember that Cheney and Bush and Rummy all wanted to use the
> result
> > of 9-11, the invasion of Iraq, as a springboard to attack at
least
> > six other countries in Northern Africa and the Middle East, and
had
> > the entire government at that time to make Iraq a success, and
they
> > still couldn't pull it off. Even though such a vast war could've
> > been sold to the USA public at that time. Makes me think that a
> > black ops the size and scope of 9-11 would've been impossible
for
> > them.
>
> Cheney's incompetence has been one of Josh
> Marshall's hobbyhorses for a long time. (He
> runs the Talking Points Memo blog, one of the
> most respected liberal ones).
>
> He had a devastating piece in Washington Monthly
> back in 2003 on this topic--
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8jfz
>
> --and he certainly hasn't changed his mind since.
>
> As to Rove's competence, after November 7, that
> begins to look like it's all been smoke and
> mirrors as well.
>
> The Iraq Study Group report that came out today
> is astonishingly harsh on the administration's
> conduct of the war, a significant part of which
> has come from Cheney.
>
> And Rumsfeld, of course, was Cheney's choice.
> He stayed in his post for so long largely because
> Cheney continued to back him.
>
Thanks- great summary in the 2003 article of Cheney. I tend to trust
common sense a great deal, and there's just gotta be something
seriously wrong with someone who obsessively kills small animals to
relax...
