ace....if you want to be taken seriously...why don't you read the news reporting that roachboy and I have posted....my post details the State Dept. post Iraq invasion planning as early as in 2002...through it's rejection by "civilians in the pentagon"?
Then you might react to specific details in the news reporting....singling out passages or details that don't jive with earlier/later reports from the same....or other sources not influenced or owned by Fox/CNP/Bozell/Horowitz or the RNC.
We are all beholden to reporting from news or investigative journalists.... bolstered by quotes from whistleblowers and attributions of "officials who asked not to be named." Individual reporters.... like James Risen of the NY Times and Pincus of the WAPO build reputations for reliable reporting.
We learn from experience and by the playing out of reported incidents in "the fullness of time"....who reports reliably....and who shills...ala Judith Miller or John Solomon.
All of us only "know" what these journalists publish or televise....ace. When I read a post from you like the one I quote in this post.....with a "Bush had a plan" statement so conflicting with the reported record....with what we now know to be the highly probable account of the quashing by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld of the actual expert PLAN....I have to agree with roachboy...about having better ways to spend time than going around and around here with you.
When you are willing to respond to opinons supported by the reported record....without relying almost solely on IBD editorials for your support....maybe you won't receive responses to your posts similar to roachboy's last one.....
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