In Bushworld, the Truth Hurts

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Margaret Carlson

April 7, 2005

Everybody says Washington has become too mean. The majority doesn't speak to the minority, except to threaten a "nuclear option" to block filibusters of judicial nominees. Oppose a domestic policy and you'll be branded an obstructionist. Oppose a foreign policy and they'll brand you as unpatriotic. It goes downhill from there.

It is amazing that in a town with so many mean people that there's no one to express righteous anger when the situation begs for it. We've had outpourings of congressional anger over steroids in baseball and Terri Schiavo, but only modest dismay over the latest report on U.S. intelligence failures.

For $10 million, nine presidential commissioners told us that there were flaws in the intelligence community. Great. There are lots of people who would've told us that for free.

Worse yet, the commission concluded in a 600-page report that intelligence wasn't politicized. Uh-huh. Frankly, only a politicized commission could possibly have concluded that "no one from the White House or Pentagon contributed to the mistaken intelligence."

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