Conspiracy Theories - If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you'll love the Downing Street memo. By Christopher�Hitchens
An interesting take from Christopher Hitchens, someone we coaxed into the right-wing conspiracy by orchestrating 9-11; prior to that he was a leftie (and still is on many matters): Conspiracy Theories - If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you'll love the Downing Street memo. By Christopher�Hitchens
posted by Hatcher at 10:19 AM
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Since we're posting from Slate, here's a few articles from Fred Kaplan:
http://www.slate.com/id/2120886/
http://www.slate.com/id/2121222
Both are pretty even-handed, but do raise significant issues that come from the Downing Street Memo(s).
Though I'm on the "wrong" side of this blog on most occasions, I do think that I'm pretty logical and sensible. No matter what you think of the Downing Memos, O'Neill and Woodward's books, etc, the questions I have for war and administration supporters are:
Don't you feel just a LITTLE bit like you were fed a story by the powers that be when
a. no WMD were found?
b. the war that was promised to cost $2bil total is now costing $more than $6bil a month?
c. money for the fully supportable Afghan war was diverted for Iraq war prep?
And if you don't feel like you were fed a story, don't you think that SOMEONE should be catching a little bit of flak for getting things so wrong?
These are the things that frustrate me sometimes.
Answers:
a.) No. Not even a little bit. Bush's story was no different from the intelligence conclusions gathered over 10 years, and by various different nations. He just acted on them. No one, to my knowledge, definitively doubted the intelligence - they differed on whether or not to act - but not on the accruacy of the intel.
b) No. Don't remember $2 billion being quoted, but my guess is that no one said - "we'll spend $2 billion, and then get out, come what may." They may have estimated that much, and the estimate may have been wildly incorrect, but it still doesn't bother me.
c) No. I don't think the Afghan campaign suffered as a result.
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