Is Condi Hiding the Smoking Gun? : FRANK RICH by FRANK RICH - THE NEW YORK TIMES Sunday May 6th, 2007 7:59 AM
RICH: As long as American troops are dying in Iraq, the secretary of state has an obligation to answer questions about how they got there and why they stay. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE WITH ALL HYPERLINKS --> OP-ED COLUMNIST Is Condi Hiding the Smoking Gun? By FRANK RICH Published: May 6, 2007 IF, as J.F.K. had it, victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan, the defeat in Iraq is the most pitiful orphan imaginable. Its parents have not only tossed it to the wolves but are also trying to pin its mutant DNA on any patsy they can find. George Tenet is just the latest to join this blame game, which began more than three years ago when his fellow Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tommy Franks told Bob Woodward that Douglas Feith, the Pentagons intelligence bozo, was the stupidest guy on the face of the earth (thats the expurgated version). Last fall, Kenneth Adelman, the neocon cheerleader who foresaw a cakewalk in Iraq, told Vanity Fair that Mr. Tenet, General Franks and Paul Bremer were three of the most incompetent people whove ever served in such key spots. Richard Perle chimed in that the huge mistakes were not made by neoconservatives and instead took a shot at President Bush. Ahmad Chalabi, the neocons former darling, told Dexter Filkins of The Times the real culprit in all this is Wolfowitz. And of course nearly everyone blames Rumsfeld. This would be a Three Stooges routine were there only three stooges. The good news is that Mr. Tenets book rollout may be the last gasp of this farcical round robin of recrimination. Republicans and Democrats have at last found some common ground by condemning his effort to position himself as the wars innocent scapegoat. Some former C.I.A. colleagues are rougher still. Michael Scheuer, who ran the agencys bin Laden unit, has accused Mr. Tenet of lacking the moral courage to resign and speak out publicly to try to stop our country from striding into what he knew would be an abyss. Even after Mr. Tenet did leave office, he maintained a Robert McNamara silence until he cashed in. --MORE-- http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-condi-hiding-smoking-gun-frank-rich.html Labels: Bush, FRANK RICH, Iraq, News, Niger forgeries, Politics, Rice, Tenet, The New York Times, war And More http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/ http://mparent7777-3.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail
