Marshall: Blowing Up the WMD Buck
Joshua Micah Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo makes a good point on the way Bush is trying to deal with the WMD “intelligence failure” these days:
Knocked on his heels by increasing evidence that he willfully deceived the American public, President Bush is off to a new strategy of spreading around the blame. Let’s call it the anti-buck gambit. Don’t pass the buck. Just get an M-80, light it, put it over in the corner with the buck on top of it. Then no more buck, no more problem.
Marshall goes on to cite some of the blatant revisionism in Bush’s current attempts to say that hey, we were wrong, the CIA was wrong, the Congress was wrong, the UN was wrong; everybody was wrong. So what are you picking on me for? Anyway, here’s the whole thing: Back to the tangled web files…
