Timeout for Wictory wednesday. Rush pens an opinion piece in today WSJ that sums up this non-story perfectly.
Woodward at War
A "Plan of Attack" against George W. Bush?BY RUSH LIMBAUGH
Wednesday, April 21, 2004Bob Woodward is back with yet another book, "Plan of Attack." That title made me first think the work was a manual on unseating George W. Bush. Discussing his book on CBS's "60 Minutes," Mr. Woodward said, in essence, that Dick Cheney ran the Iraq war and talked President Bush into it, though President Bush was never crazy about it; the CIA botched everything again; the one man in the administration we can trust, Colin Powell, was kept out of the loop; God talks to President Bush and President Bush listens; and President Bush is an idiot who disdains the truly smart people of the world.
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But even if the president had decided to go to war against Saddam in January 2003, what's the big deal? Congress knew full well that war was imminent, as did the rest of us. In October 2002, Congress voted overwhelmingly to give President Bush the authority to use military force against Iraq. The Senate approved the measure 77-23, the House by 296-133. In November 2002, the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441 giving Iraq "a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations." There's nothing secret about these public acts, which were deliberate and debated. Saddam remained belligerent, making war unavoidable. If he'd opened his country to unencumbered inspections, there would have been no war.
As for some of Mr. Woodward's observations about the president's intelligence, his supposed misapplication of funds for military preparations against Iraq, his personal relationship with God, etc.--how elitist! And strange. Remember this from JFK's inaugural address? "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. . . . The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world." The World. It sure sounds to me like Mr. Bush is a man of his times and that his critics have lost their anchor. And their heroes.
Are we done now? Is the media really planning to spend the next six months brewing up tempests in teapots?
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