Word: oversold
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...M.P.s. "Disastrous" is how a senior aide envisioned that scenario last week. Then there's Lord Hutton, who releases his exhaustive report into the suicide of David Kelly, the government weapons scientist who found himself caught in a furious row between Downing Street and the BBC over whether Blair oversold the case for war in Iraq. A direct finding that Blair lied when he denied any role in "outing" Kelly's name to reporters - a conceivable outcome, based on the public evidence put before Hutton - would make his job untenable. Two-thirds of the public thinks Blair should resign...
...seems both unfair and nonsensical for Klein to lambaste Democrats--Wesley Clark in particular--for not swallowing hook, line and sinker the Bush Administration's request for $87 billion. Klein himself suggests that the reasons for the invasion of Iraq were, "at the very least, oversold" and that "the post-Saddam period has been marked by ... arrogance and incompetence." JEFFREY LOHN New York City...
...Despite last week's tepid support from the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. will not be receiving very much military or financial aid from the world because there is continuing outrage over America's unilateral decision to go to war. The original casus belli was, at the very least, oversold. The post-Saddam period has been marked by American arrogance and incompetence. The prognosis for Iraq is grave. It is not even clear that the three main ethnic and religious groups--the Kurds, Iraqi Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims--can be knitted into a coherent country. But these...
...suicide kicks the already bitter fight over whether Blair oversold the case for war into more treacherous ground. At a news conference in Japan on Saturday, a reporter went so far as to ask a visibly drawn and shaken Blair if he had "blood on his hands"--because his communications director, Alastair Campbell, was instrumental in arranging for Kelly to testify. The committee was investigating whether Campbell had "sexed up" the dossier Blair released last September on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, as a BBC reporter claimed. Kelly had denied being the source for that claim. After exchanges in which...
...days later, the BBC confirms that he was the source for the devastating story after all. The suicide last week of Dr. David Kelly, an advisor to the Ministry of Defense on biological and chemical weapons, inserted a human tragedy into the already bitter fight over whether Tony Blair oversold the case for war on Iraq. Kelly had visited Iraq nearly 40 times, and contributed to the dossier Blair released last September that argued Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was trying to get more. Blair's approval ratings have been floundering since BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan reported that...