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joe wilson on woodward.
wayback spin ... remember back in August of 2002 when the adminsitration was ready to bypass Congress to go to war ... WH lawyers: Bush can order Iraq attack ... Bush Gets Legal Advice On Iraq
good times
In challenging war's critics, administration tinkers with truth
Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
might as well start with woodward. another turgid display of fourth estatemanship.
digbys take:
Woodward, like Broder and Sally and Richard Cohen and Cokie and the rest of the moribund DC establishment, are obsessed with the social and personal activities of their King (and their own relationships to him) and have absolutely no interest or insight into the corrupt, depraved, malevolent political force the Republican Washington establishment has become. (It's hardball politics!) As long as they are getting their due deference and nobody's slip is showing, they are more than happy to keep any behavior that the unwashed masses might find unpalatable under wraps --- things like war or institutionalized character assassination. The only scandals worth reporting are "too many marts" and "trashing the place" --- behaviors that imply the courtier's social mores are unimportant. Tsk tsk tsk.
the sport of politics