Here and There

Another report has been announced that tells many people what they already guessed: that the war in Iraq has actually caused terrorism, not stanched it.

The Times report contains some really remarkable (and telling) viewpoints concerning this whole quote-war-unquote issue. One of my personally least favorites (and comical if it weren’t so tragic) comes from the leader of the U.S. Senate, Mr. “She’s not a vegetable” himself:

But the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee, used language that echoed that of President Bush, saying that “either we are going to be fighting this battle, this war overseas, or it’s going to be right here in this country.”

Equally laughable was the ludicrous notion of one crusty old Republican doing his best to defang the report’s implications of the current administration:

[...] Alexander M. Haig Jr., the former secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, belittled the report as the product of liberal journalists [...]

I wish today’s GOP members took things like war and non-partisan government reports serious enough not to play politics with them.

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