MAUREEN DOWD: Better Never Than Late

[kevinmc]

Instead of George Tenet teaching at Georgetown University, George Tenet should be taught at Georgetown University.

There should be a course on government called “The Ultimate Staff Guy.” A morality saga about how much harm you can do as a go-along, get-along guy, spending so much time trying not to alienate the big cheese so he doesn’t can you that you miss the moment where you have to can him or lose your soul.

If Colin Powell and George Tenet had walked out of the administration in February 2003 instead of working together on that tainted U.N. speech making the bogus case for war, they might have turned everything around. They might have saved the lives and limbs of all those brave U.S. kids and innocent Iraqis, not to mention our world standing and national security.

It would certainly have been harder for timid Democrats, like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and John Edwards, to back up the administration if two members of the Bush inner circle had broken away to tell an increasingly apparent truth: that Dick Cheney, Rummy and the neocons were feverishly pushing a naïve president into invading Iraq with junk facts......

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/05/maureen-dowd-better-never-than-late.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. MoDo is spot on here. Tenet - and Powell - were wimps. nt

[Orrex]

2. I dunno...

Dowd is a crapshoot, at best. Too much of her stuff is more harmful to Dems than to Repubs, all the moreso because she nominally rallies under the banner of the Left. The Daily Howler has written extensively (and incomparably) about the damage she inflicted on Gore's and Kerry's campaigns.

When she does manage to get it right on occasion, it's always a surprise.

[tularetom]

3. Tomorrow she'll be back to trashing the Dems, but

she got it right this time.

[The Count]

4. LET'S SEE: Tenet is bashing Bushco, Bushco bashes Tenet - we bash.... Tenet?

Anything wrong with this picture? I notice a lot of DU-ers got distracted by the SOP of the WH unleashing the slime of the detractor du jour.
Sure tenet has his own responsibility, but shouldn't MoDo/DU discuss instead about what we know about W and his lies to war, instead of discrediting the messenger? Just askin' :shrug: