Is the Truth Finally Rising to the Surface?
Hoffmania presents some examples from today's Los Angeles Times (you know, where Michael Kinsley recently suggested that he didn't want to be disturbed from his nap by people wanting to hear the details behind the Downing Street Memo).
Here's a snip, but go read the rest:
Today's LAT is almost overflowing with - uh...truth. First, there's an editorial essentially calling Cheney a liar.
Vice President Dick Cheney has never been one to let reality get in the way of his message. With his credibility already strained after it turned out that none of his pre-war assertions about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were true, he is nonetheless still deluded by wishful thinking. A case in point: his recent assertion that increased violence in Iraq indicates the insurgency there is in its "last throes, if you will."
No, we won't, and neither, as it turns out, will the Army's top brass. Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Persian Gulf, essentially said that was nonsense while testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday. "I believe there are more foreign fighters coming into Iraq than there were six months ago," he said, adding that the strength of the insurgency is "about the same" as it was six months ago.
Abizaid's remarks indicate that the military is not going to let itself become the fall guy for the administration's mistakes, including its refusal to adequately plan for the postwar occupation (which the latest British "Downing Street memos" confirm).
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