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...until he deals with the issue Hutton skirted: that while the British government might not have lied about its intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, that intelligence was still dead wrong. Blair, even more than George W. Bush, based the argument for war on the absolute certainty that Iraq had such weapons. The White House is now backing away from those claims; Blair has not. He outsmarted the executioner, but still has some explaining to do. Give him time. For now, Blair was grinning widely as he sped away unscathed from his near-death experience. He could see plenty...
...part had claimed. Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, worried in an e-mail that draft dossier language stating "Saddam is prepared to use chemical and biological weapons if he believes his regime is under threat" was "a bit of a problem" because "it backs up the ? argument that there is no cbw threat and we will only create one if we attack him." Scarlett took out the offending language, but told Hutton it was because Powell's e-mails had caused his staff to check their source materials, to conclude that they were wrong in the first place...
BCRA’s opponents had claimed that banning soft money and restricting advertising was tantamount to limiting the right to free speech of corporations, unions and special interest groups. In rejecting this argument, the Supreme Court declared, in effect, that the importance of protecting of these means of speech was outweighed by the need to prevent the appearance of corruption in politics. The Court was right to make the reduction of apparent corruption a primary concern. In a country where the more monied candidates win 90 percent of the elections, the influence of wealthy donors cannot be denied...
...that [Meyer] presents his argument is that Harvard is paying less for [the fund managers] than the open market,” Alexander said. “But they don’t have to be rewarded at the same level because they’re not taking the same risk as they would in the real world...
...leave aside the merits of the argument, which are dubious at best. Let's go back to "Prices will go up at your local Wal-Mart." Citizen Dean is now on record in favor of higher taxes and higher prices. This is either refreshingly candid, remarkably courageous or stupendously boneheaded--perhaps a bit of all three. And it leaves me with a real Dean conundrum. After a year of exposure to rampaging Deaniocracy, I still can't figure...