Six years after Bill Clinton left office they're still blaming him for the current administration's failures.

Q Okay, just one quick follow-up. When you hear from your allies on Capitol Hill and elsewhere who were in favor of the preemptive doctrine, and they are critical of the administration, they think the administration is not doing enough in ( Read more... )

I'm watching more of "The Power of Nightmares" and made another comparison that blew my mind. In the 60s Kissinger signed treaties limiting production of weapons of mass destruction, producing an era of detente. As SecDef of the Ford administration, Donald Rumsfeld felt that american military dominance would be good for the world, but he knew he ( Read more... )

'Nerve gas bomb' explodes in IraqA few news wires have been carrying the story that insurgents used a Sarin artillery shell as a roadside bomb. I really hope this is true. Actually I hope they raid a house and find a whole trainload of shiny new chemical weapons. It's been fun to be a smug Bush-hater, saying that he totally made up the WMD claim ( Read more... )

I found a few articles in some fringey news sites of questionable reliability that nonetheless bring up some interesting corroboratable points, and a few of questionable credibility. Remember the April Al Quaeda-linked Jordanian Chemical Attack that was discovered and thwarted at the last minute? The story circulating in the fringey press is that ( Read more... )

The Carnegie Endowment just published "WMD IN IRAQ: Evidence and Implications". It's a condensation of many different sources, contrasting what intelligence sources knew about Iraq before the war, how politicians represented this knowlege, and what we know now.

No real surprises, including:

• Intelligence community appears to have been unduly ( Read more... )