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...Suskind's new book, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (being released Tuesday by Simon and Schuster). The clear implication: It seems the Bush administration truncated its post-9/11 war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda - which were avidly seeking WMDs - to take on Saddam Hussein's Iraq, whose WMD programs had been suspended and put into the deep freeze under international pressure...
...Vietnam War were also partly caused by groupthink, in which decision makers took advice only from those who shared their ideas. Bush was elected in part as the education President. An educated person should critically evaluate evidence for and against hypotheses--in this case, that Iraq had WMDs and was supporting al-Qaeda. For that, I give him an F in critical thinking and in leadership...
...Iran is engaged in a covert bomb program also carries its own risks: The evidence is mostly circumstantial, much of it resting on the contents of a stolen Iranian laptop computer. And considering how things turned out when the U.S. made its case in the security council about Iraqi WMDs in the run-up to the war, Washington's credibility on these issues isn't exactly strong. Moreover, nothing will weaken diplomatic support for U.S. positions on Iran faster than associating them with the Bush administration's well-known appetite for regime change in Iran...
...FEEL ABOUT JUDITH MILLER, THE NEWLY RETIRED NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER WHO HAS BEEN CRITICIZED FOR RELYING ON YOUR ORGANIZATION AS A SOURCE FOR PREWAR REPORTING ON IRAQ'S WMDS? I think Judith Miller is a good reporter. Over there she did very good reporting for the Times, and she tried to check the facts and examine the evidence. I think she has been made into a scapegoat for the media. If you count the number of newspapers and media outlets that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, you'll find many all around...
...need these tools because we are thoroughly incompetent at cohabiting on our own. Unlike Saddam’s Baathist regime, Harvard students are armed with an unlimited supply of WMDs, a fully-stocked arsenal of H-Bombs. Unfortunately, because we all have them, the Harvard dating scene must abide by the M.A.D. principle of Mutually Assured Dorkiness: we’re immune to each other’s attacks. With our nuclear weaponry neutralized, we are effectively neutered, and so we need all the help we can get; hence the “Last Chance Dance...