January 14, 2005

Stop rationalizing

By Steve Feinstein
The commission tasked with finding WMD's in Iraq has now officially terminated its search, issuing its statement that such weapons will probably never be found. Not that they never existed, but that the likelihood of actually finding stockpiles of WMD's in Iraq is so low as be not worth the further expenditure of time and effort. This has prompted another round of after—the—fact nay saying by the Administration's numerous and willing critics, as they fall over each other in a race to see who can be the first to say 'Aha! This is the final proof that Bush took us to war under false pretenses.' At the time Bush made the decision to go to war, all the intelligence—ours and the rest of the world's, including France, Britain, Israel, and Russia—painted an unequivocal picture of a WMD—armed Iraq, led by a maniacal, terrorist—sympathizing leader willing and ready to use those weapons in a post 9/11 world. Decisions can only be evaluated and analyzed based...(Read Full Article)