Truth to Power

Don’t forget

It’s indisputable that Bush, much aided by laptop bombardiers like Fields, has won the war – if “winning” means “spinning.” However, the crucial thing to bear in mind is that, even if the aftershocks of the invasion were irrefutably beneficial – and they are anything but – they wouldn’t expunge the Original Sin. In Bushite theology, any injustice is pardonable so long as, in retrospect, some good can be attached to it.

And make no mistake, the invasion of Iraq was an injustice.</i>

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