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...full-time job. For months, the Administration, along with just about everyone else, was piling on complaints: the agency's spies failed to clearly see bin Laden's army gathering over the horizon back in 2001, failed to realize that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and underestimated the strength of the postwar insurgency in Iraq. In response, the spooks whispered that the President's aides were too quick to blame the agency for their own mistakes of judgment. The agency had repeatedly warned both the current Administration and its predecessor about bin Laden, they said...
...dead. Do you get it?" Still, her mail from the g.o.p. continues to arrive almost weekly. Maybe, since deceased voters have been known to cast ballots, it's in the party's interest to keep sending mail. Jane Koch Montclair, Virginia, U.S. Strategic Miscalculations Saddam denied having WMD all along [Oct. 18]. He did not mislead anyone. We just did not believe him. The media failed to ask probing questions about the alleged WMD that would have triggered a debate about the Bush Administration's case for going to war. I blame the media for the mistakes about Saddam...
...September the challenger should have been far ahead. For months the war news had been devastating for the President: the mounting casualties, the absence of WMD, Abu Ghraib, the kidnappings and beheadings. The President's popularity, once 90%, began to dip below the fatal 50% mark. Yet Kerry could do nothing. If the election had been held Sept. 29, it would have been a Bush landslide...
...another time, Bush and Bartlett might have challenged the authenticity of the documents. But stiff-arming the press had failed during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and after the tempest over WMD claims in the State of the Union address, so the last thing Bush wanted was a credibility fight. "We couldn't challenge their veracity because then people would challenge ours," says Bartlett. A softer defense was hatched: Bartlett would hint that the alleged new evidence was being pushed by the President's political enemies but would stick to the talking points: Bush had been honorably discharged...
It took only a few false reports about WMD for the Bush Administration to invade Iraq because of fears of an imminent threat. So why is nothing being done to resolve Sudan's Darfur crisis [Oct. 4], a proven humanitarian catastrophe? Perhaps it is because that tragedy does not pose any immediate danger to the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. Peace negotiations, U.N. convoys and delegations to assess the nature of the genocide are not the solution for Sudan. What is the difference between the Iraqi insurgents and the government-backed Janjaweed militia in Sudan's Darfur...