The Memory Hole Today

clipped from victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com Being “fooled” by intelligence reports is unacceptable inasmuch as the Congressional leaders were given the same reports that the administration got, themselves consistent with those produced during the Clinton administration. The only acceptable explanation for such an about face was the one never offered, something like the following: “I thought removing Saddam could be accomplished at far less cost than transpired. But due both to the difficulty of establishing reform in postwar Iraq, and our own flawed assumptions about reconstruction, I now don’t think the ultimate goal of a stable constitutional Iraq is attainable—or at least not attainable at a price in American blood and treasure I am willing to pay.” Not a single Democrat has been candid enough to admit the above.