I dislike George Bush as much as the next guy but this editorial in yesterday's Times, called the Deluder in chief, that attacks George Bush over the war in Iraq is so much comfort food for privileged blue staters. The White House is identified as the sole real efficient cause of the disastrous war, along with its politicized Pentagon. Rumsfeld, Cheney.
The true and inevitable post-mortem of the Iraq war will do what the Times did for the Vietnam war, and identify all the necessary elements of this huge mistake, including principally the neocons, who supplied the ideas and of course go unmentioned here, and the Times itself, which supplied the Establishment consensus for the war, by publishing Ken Pollack's delusions in chief 2 or 3 times in the months leading up to the invasion, and where "liberal hawks" like Keller and Friedman pushed the misadventure. Let alone Judy Miller and Michael Gordon… Iraq is reminiscent of the Dreyfus affair, when it was not enough for the false accusation to be retracted, but the whole establishment that fell for it had to recant and reform…
