Easterbook of recent-ESPN-firing fame comes up with a clear and succinct statement about WMD in Iraq:
http://www.tnr.com/easterbrook.mhtml?pid=894
Quote:
IT'S THIS SIMPLE: COME CLEAN ON WMD, OR LEAVE IRAQ: I'd like to propose a simplification of the entire Iraq/WMD debate. It's this: If the reason we went into Iraq really, truly was that the Bush administration really, truly believed Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, then there is nothing of which the administration need feel shamed --but the United States must immediately leave Iraq.
We now know there is no significant banned-weapons program in Iraq. Any serious manufacturing facilities for banned weapons would have been detected by this point. If we went in to stop a banned-weapons program genuinely believing one existed, and now know one did not exist, then our military must depart immediately. This is the only honorable course.
Alternative: The administration admits that other reasons, possibly valid, were the real reasons all along.
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I couldn't have said it better myself! It's not often that I agree with a conservative columnist in the National Review.