what is interesting is that this is the senate intellgence committee report from 2003 that is finally reaching the public.
it is also interesting to note that this is a bipartisan report.
it contains little new information, frankly--in tfp land, host has been posting continuous about the role played by chalabi et al in fabricating information amenable to the policy ends ofthe bush administration that had nothing to do with reality on the ground.
critics of the administration have known this from day one.
supporters of the administration have denied this information based seemingly on nothing beyond a sense of ideological loyalty that extends to a bizarre place: faced with a choice between ideology and reality, ideology wins.
this problem is particular to the right.
so now you see this sorry administration attempting to market itself yet again based on a narrative that is worth nothing at all.
you see it hawking itself and its war--which has cost thousands of lives--on the basis of a narrative that is utterly and completely without merit.
i would think there should come a point where conservatives begin to abandon the bush administration in great number, simply in the interest of self-preservation.
has that point arrived?
if it has not, then why not?
the question really then is not about the contents of conservative politics, but about the linkage between conservative politics and this administration.
why would a conservative who is interested in the continued functionality of conservative politics continue to support george w. bush?
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