Anyway, “going back in time”is a “disservice” to those who served in the war.
.. So the only “experts” left standing are those who made all the approved mistakes. It’s kind of a fraternity of failure: men and women united by a shared history of getting everything wrong, and refusing to admit it... That same CIA report called into question the credibility every single key source of information that the administration was using for their case. Bob Graham said it best “the Administration genuinely believes that Iraq has WMDs, but it has no credible evidence of such WMDs per the CIA Report, which I concluded means that the Administration has condemned Iraq on having WMDs on faith and fear alone”. It took courage to vote “No”.
.. If being right in their predictions mattered to Republicans we would see the kind of behavior that matters to Krugman and other rational people. Republicans would see the failure of their policies and predictions and reconsider their views. But they aren’t interested in being right. They are only interested in getting and keeping power, by any and all means, legal or otherwise. The critical question is why? I believe we know the answer in the main. They are the representatives and servants of privilege and wealth, mostly white, male and of a certain age. They succeed because of their ability to pour billions into politics and to exclude millions from voting. Currently they control the Congress, the Supreme Court and half the states, despite being a distinctly minority party.
Iraq War Haunts Potential Bush Candidacy, as It Did Clinton in 2008
In his opening months as an all-but-declared candidate, Mr. Bush has seemed unsurprised, if irritated, by questions about how he is different from the previous presidents named Bush. He has explained that he loves his father and brother, but recognizes that he will have to make his own case to win the nomination. (Unmentioned is that much of his strength as a candidate owes to the fundraising network he largely inherited from his family.)
.. Mr. Paul may overstate the extent of Mr. Bush’s legacy problems with Republicans — a New York Times-CBS poll this month showed 7 in 10 Republicans viewed George W. Bush favorably.
.. A group of Republican senators meeting this week on Capitol Hill were nearly incredulous that Mr. Bush did not have a better answer and joked about how many press aides he needed to respond to such a basic matter, according to a party strategist who heard the conversation.
.. Mr. Bush’s overarching problem “is this eternal relitigation of every decision of George W. Bush,” she added.
“As much as he’s saying ‘I’m my own man,’ every time he says that, we’re reminded he’s not.”