Thursday, June 26, 2003

Well, it's not like when Cronkite questioned Viet Nam and Johnson realized, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the rest of the country," but many of my conservative pals swear by George Will so it gives you a talking point to hold up to them. This $#@! is hitting the fan if Will is questioning Bush's reasons to go to war.

The Bush Doctrine At Risk

By George F. Will

Sunday, June 22, 2003; Page B07

An antidote for grand imperial ambitions is a taste of imperial success. Swift victory in Iraq may have whetted the appetite of some Americans for further military exercises in regime change, but more than seven weeks after the president said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," combat operations, minor but lethal, continue.

And overshadowing the military achievement is the failure -- so far -- to find, or explain the absence of, weapons of mass destruction that were the necessary and sufficient justification for preemptive war. The doctrine of preemption -- the core of the president's foreign policy -- is in jeopardy...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17845-2003Jun20.html

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