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Sullivan On Iraq

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The War On Terrorism, War

Incredible intellectual honesty from one of my favorite bloggers.

The next phase looks messy, but not necessarily more disastrous than what has happened up till now. (Yeah, I know that’s not exactly a high standard). I’m hanging in there with David Brooks. It’s not intellectually easy to continue supporting a war when you’ve lost faith in the honesty and competence of the president who’s leading it, but what choice do we have? There are other good people struggling to make this work: Casey, Rice, Khalilzad, McCain; and the thousands of troops who are risking their lives in this project. They key is to grasp how little we know, how badly we’ve screwed up, but also not to throw in the towel when, in fact, there is still a chance for leveraging the current situation to our and to Iraqis’ advantage. One thing I wish were more insisted upon. It’s not just that we have no interest in seeing Iraq degenerate into a brutal civil and possibly regional war. By removing Saddam, we created this vacuum. We own it. We have a moral responsibility to see this through.

Here’s the thing, if the President talked to the American people with such honesty, he’d have people coming back to him in droves.

Do you think that would work?

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3 Responses to “Sullivan On Iraq”

debsay Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 1:52 pm
Oh come on Justin, he has been talking to the American People honestly… he just keeps getting drowned out by opportunistic partisan politics and people that are now ‘lying’ to discredit him.

We have a media that constantly distorts his words, implies that he said things that he didn’t say, and overlook complete statements so they can focus on part of a sentence.
Socks Clinton Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 4:12 pm
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13190546.htm

Here are some the most recent Bush distortions. He has said these things when attacking war critics in the past few weeks.

I think that the worst one is when he says that Congress had access to the same intelligence that he did. Not true.

I agree that he is definitely not straight forward in acknowledging problems in Iraq.
Socks Clinton Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 4:18 pm
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/13189605.htm

Here. I think that you don’t have to create an ID to use this link. Hopefully.

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