I haven’t yet had a chance to give a close look to the Carnegie Endowment’sreport on Iraq and WMD. But it’s awfully distressing to see Colin Powell (almost a tragic figure in all this) spouting the ridiculousness that whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction is still an open question.
“This game is still unfolding,” said the Secretary today.
Game, indeed.
There are real questions about just how almost everyone in the US government seemed to get this one so wrong. (The administration systematically exaggerated the evidence. But even the ‘good’ evidence turned out to be wrong.) But that we got it wrong really isn’t up for discussion anymore.
The fact that David Kay says he wants out and that, as Times reported today, we have “quietly withdrawn from Iraq a 400-member military team whose job was to scour the country for military equipment” makes the point pretty clearly.
At a certain point, the inability to come to grips with this publicly just becomes pathetic.
But this is what it’s come to. We’re like OJ and Scott Peterson, off searching for the ‘real killers.’
Or when they bring back ‘In Search Of’ … Amelia Earhart, the Bermuda Triangle and Iraqi WMD.
