As is usual with most of life's events, what's unfolding now in Iraq isn't good for really either side in the debate.
Clearly there were WMD's. (of course this won't be reported by the media)
Clearly we didn't secure the WMD sites very well, or at least quickly enough. (this WILL be reported by the media)
So, even though both sides (leftists and rightists) have some explaining to do, once again we have the classic situation: Bush will end up looking bad, all because the media won't report both sides of the situation.
So it will be ONLY our side with explaining to do, while the clearly false claim of "Bush lied about WMD's! People died from his lies" will simply fade away into obscurity, with no real explaination for THAT ever required or offered.
When you get the lefts top dog (Hitch) and the right's top dog (Rush) both flaying the old grey whore, that can only be good for Bush & Co.
Clearly there were WMD's. (of course this won't be reported by the media)
Clearly we didn't secure the WMD sites very well, or at least quickly enough. (this WILL be reported by the media)
So, even though both sides (leftists and rightists) have some explaining to do, once again we have the classic situation: Bush will end up looking bad, all because the media won't report both sides of the situation.
As Hitchens points out, in the long run, the media cannot simultaneously push the “there were no WMDs” and the “Bush let them disperse the WMDs” stories.
Well, I guess they can, but only the idiot voters of the left will be able to swallow the contradiction, and they're effectively marginalized for the duration.
Actually, I disagree here. The Dems and the MSM have too much invested politically in the "Bush lied about WMDs" attack to walk away from it now. And the Bush Admin has already taken the political damage from there not being WMDs to want to deal with the prospect that the WMDs were actually scattered, as some critics claimed could happen before the invasion.
Witness how the foiled al Qaeda chemical weapon attack on Annan, Jordan fell completely off the radar screen.