Tag: curveball

#rsrh Brad DeLong fails the Turing Test.

As a general rule, I generally ignore the Other Side’s B-List-and-below propagandists: but great googly moogly, this is bizarre.  How bizarre?  This level of bizarre:

The amazing bit? DeLong doesn’t seem to understand that he’s just conceded that the Curveball revelations means that the Bush administration did not lie about Iraq’s WMD programs; at worst, they were lied to about them by the Germans.  Well, as I said: B-List, and that’s me being charitable* to somebody else from the Old School.  Poor guy moved along while the rest of us moved up.

Moe Lane

*Not too charitable: you’ll note that I didn’t deem this worth a direct link from RedState.

#rsrh Uncurving the Curveball.

I probably wouldn’t be on Colin Powell’s Christmas card list, nor he on mine – not for any particular enmity on my part, or (hypothetical) on his; we’re just not the same kind of Republicans – but I have to admit:

Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to alert him to the unreliability of a key source behind claims of Saddam Hussein’s bio-weapons capability.

…I’d like to know the answer to this one myself.  I mean, contrary to Lefty mythology, the liberation of Iraq did not hinge on the presence of WMDs (although I will admit that their proven past existence and use on civilian targets by the late, unlamented-by-civilized-people Hussein regime did make quite a few Democrats at least temporarily capable of being swayed by reason); but the failure to find any in significant amounts after the fact was definitely embarrassing to the Bush administration, and I join former Secretary Powell in wanting to hear the bureaucrats explain themselves.  Because we’re still counting on these people to tell us what the heck is going on, and President Obama needs to be better served by them than former President Bush was.

Moe Lane

PS: Oops! Via Hot Air Headlines.