1 Boring Old Man

This morning’s Wapo opinion piece by David Broder, Gore’s Challenge, about Gore’s speech is a generally positive review, but there’s one part that will surely bring a lot of criticism:

… and contents himself with citing the cases that cause many others concern. The first — and to my mind weakest — instance is the claim that Bush took the nation to war on the basis of false intelligence about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. But there is no clear evidence as yet that Bush willfully concocted or knowingly distorted the intelligence he received about Saddam Hussein’s military programs. Interpretations of that intelligence varied within the government, but the Clinton administration, of which Gore was an important part, came to the same conclusions that Bush did — and so did other governments in the Western alliance.

It is a reach to attempt to make a crime of a policy misjudgment.

I’ll refer to my post below and save the predicable rant as long as I can.

Update 11:50 AM: Well I made it three and a half hours. So why mince words? POLICY MISJUDGMENT MY ASS! That was a premeditated, orchestrated, POLICY JUDGMENT based on deliberately falsified information – enacting a POLICY made up at:

The Project for the New American Century
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

The American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

having nothing to do with the reality of the 911 Terrorist Attack or the Principles of our Constitution.

[My restraint was pretty impressive, Huh?]