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Iraq
The Road to War (Chicago Tribune editorial series)
2005-12-28
This is a root link to a 13 part Chicago Tribune series on the road to war in Iraq. The article shown was published today, entitled, Judging the case for war; it's a summary with a verdict on each of the issues examined. Down the left-hand side you'll see the links to previous stories, starting Nov. 20th.

The key point here: when you examine the evidence carefully, you see that the Bush administration was right to remove Saddam, even if it inartfully or inaccurately presented some evidence. The critics come off looking poorly because they have no answers to the root questions of how to respond to Saddam, how to keep him in check if left in power, and how to relieve the suffering of the Iraqi people.

This is very, very good MSM reporting and analysis; it's too bad the usual defenders of the MSM are nowhere to be found in support.

And an apology by me: I should have been linking each part in the series as they were published.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  "Intelligence agencies warned the Clinton and Bush administrations that Hussein was reconstituting his once-impressive program to create nuclear weapons. In part that intel reflected embarrassment over U.S. failure before the Persian Gulf war to grasp how close Iraq was to building nukes."

I like this line because it poses the dilemma neatly. 'Certainty' about that which one shouldn't claim 'certainty' leaves the country exposed. 'Certainty' that you have an amount of time before you really have to worry, or 'certainty' that unseen weapons exist-'certainty' in either direction is foolish. 'Possibility'' is more interesting.
Posted by: jules 2   2005-12-28 23:19  

#1  As penance, Steve, I expect 3 "Hail Mary's," 2 "Our Father's" and a partridge in a pear tree.
Posted by: Tibor   2005-12-28 16:04  

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