I knew someone would stick up for the dude: William Saffire. Interesting op-ed piece on the feuding between State, Pentagon & CIA http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/opinion/24SAFI.html?hp "The Pentagon. .. found much of Chalabi's information, as well as his contacts in potentially meddlesome Iran, to be useful; indeed, as recently as last week, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Richard Myers, noted that intelligence supplied by him "saved soldiers' lives." "
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Safire's senile. Put him on the ice floe, already. And make Judith Miller swim out to join him.
Ah, c'mon. Can you believe how difficult life is for Safire these days? The NY Times hires you to present the pro-Bush, pro-conservative viewpoint so they can appear fair and balanced. You're on-notice for doing a poor job - they've added David Brooks to defend Bush/attack his critics cuz you're just not gettin the job done anymore. Everyday, you struggle to find something good to write about the administration, and take the high road. But what do you have to work with? The well of administration positives is emptier than a non-alcoholic bar at happy hour. Read his columns frequently, and you can see how we valiently tries to stretch the truth just enough to cover the holes big enough to drive a convoy of WMD through...