"There’s just so much to say about this new bubbling-up of the WMD controversy. And I plan to say a lot of it. But, for the moment, let’s see if there’s any way to get the media and various other members of the capital's elect to avoid another round of self-administered bamboozlement.
"For months we have known with increasing degrees of certainty that there were, contrary to expectations, no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Yet the fact that David Kay has now stated this baldly has suddenly put this reality at the center of the national debate in a way it wasn’t only a couple weeks ago.
"He has also said two other things.
"First, he’s said that the CIA was not pressured to reach its erroneous conclusions. Second, he has said that rather than the president owing an explanation or apology to the American people, the CIA owes an explanation or apology to the president.
"As to the first point, how would he know?
"To the best of my knowledge, Kay wasn’t involved in any of the relevant inter-agency processes and he hasn’t investigated this question after the fact. So how would he know? I think the answer is clear: he doesn't.
"The second point is a classic example of that phenomenon we’ve become so familiar with in the Bush years: up-is-downism."
Josh Marshall goes on to explain, deconstructing the spin on WMD intelligence and the White House's sudden urgency to get to the bottom of it.
And the Washington Post is shocked, shocked to learn that there's lobbying going in our nation's capital.
It is a legitimate story -- Kerry's attacking the influence of special interests, even as he pockets their money -- but I'm not sure that one can even begin to compare his record in the Senate with the profound influence a wide range of industries wield in the Bush White House. Nor can you compare the amount of money Kerry's raised with Bush's fundraising, which rivals the GDP of Portugal.
And it's a legitimate "debating point" for Dean. But my, what a difference a month makes.
I say, let the corporate interests throw all the money they can at Kerry; it means they smell a winner.
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Friedmand on Budgets of Mass Destruction
"For months we have known with increasing degrees of certainty that there were, contrary to expectations, no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Yet the fact that David Kay has now stated this baldly has suddenly put this reality at the center of the national debate in a way it wasn’t only a couple weeks ago.
"He has also said two other things.
"First, he’s said that the CIA was not pressured to reach its erroneous conclusions. Second, he has said that rather than the president owing an explanation or apology to the American people, the CIA owes an explanation or apology to the president.
"As to the first point, how would he know?
"To the best of my knowledge, Kay wasn’t involved in any of the relevant inter-agency processes and he hasn’t investigated this question after the fact. So how would he know? I think the answer is clear: he doesn't.
"The second point is a classic example of that phenomenon we’ve become so familiar with in the Bush years: up-is-downism."
Josh Marshall goes on to explain, deconstructing the spin on WMD intelligence and the White House's sudden urgency to get to the bottom of it.
And the Washington Post is shocked, shocked to learn that there's lobbying going in our nation's capital.
It is a legitimate story -- Kerry's attacking the influence of special interests, even as he pockets their money -- but I'm not sure that one can even begin to compare his record in the Senate with the profound influence a wide range of industries wield in the Bush White House. Nor can you compare the amount of money Kerry's raised with Bush's fundraising, which rivals the GDP of Portugal.
And it's a legitimate "debating point" for Dean. But my, what a difference a month makes.
I say, let the corporate interests throw all the money they can at Kerry; it means they smell a winner.
More Deficit Reduction Program Related Activities.
Friedmand on Budgets of Mass Destruction
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