Yes, I've still got the PATRIOT act stuff simmering, and something else about the Digital Milleneum Copyright Act. Give me some time, I'm now focused on North Korea.
We weren't all wrong
I've been wanting to blog about this for a while. The whole talking point "We were all wrong about WMD in Iraq" is patently untrue. I wasn't wrong. I didn't believe Colin Powell, as I wrote about last May.
I just couldn't figure out how best to express this. The Slacktivist has managed it. It's good, and explains why reasonable people were deceived by the media and deceived by the White House. Maybe it was my distrust of this administration, but I knew back then they were lying about the economy and tax cuts, so I wasn't all that surprised that they were lying about WMDs in Iraq.
slacktivist: "Not Everyone Was Wrong"
"We were all wrong," David Kay, the former chief weapons inspector told Congress on Jan. 29.
Kay's statement sent the Bush administration scurrying for a response. That response, as it turns out, has been to try to minimize that last word -- "wrong" -- by ...