[Tolik]

See more of Hanson's notes on the Pseudo-footnotes here and here and FR discussion here

[Tolik]

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[Chewie84]

"It's worth noting, though, that many of the authors' critical portraits rely on private conversations and anonymous sources. The most damning informants in these books are never identified and so can't be questioned."

So what else is new? Liberal "journalists" have always relied on techniques like that to protect themselves from being exposed as liars.

[.cnI redruM]

This is how a Black Legend gets started. We're letting people who hate us, both within our nation and outside, write the history of our times. If the world detests the US fifty years from now and hunts us down as villains, this is where it gets started.

[SeeSalt]

You make my day! You are a true American.Thank you!

[Blind Eye Jones]

"Rarely do these journalists quote unnamed sources who dissent from their own views, although there are surely pro-U.S. Iraq policy candid voices among the thousands of retired generals... And while there have been on-the-record critics of all three books, none of the unnamed accusers cited in them has come forward."

For me this says it all -- hit piece. The Bush Administration was wise to cut Woodward out. Woodward is a greasy guy.

[metesky]

Pseudo bttt
Thanks, Tolik.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Here's what I want to know. The democrats are saying that it was Government Incompetence that kept us from "succeeding in Iraq".

But didn't they oppose the war because they thought it couldn't succeed? Didn't James Webb say before the war that the idea of an invasion itself was a disaster, that there was no way we could win?

If there was no way for this to turn out good, how could it now be the "way we are fighting the war" that has prevented it from succeeding?

Where is the proposal for how it would have succeeded?

I think it's funny that people I argued with before the war about how it would turn out bad are now arguing that if we had just done something different AFTER the war everything would have turned out great.

[ryan71]

I won't say we're losing in Iraq, but the trouble we're having is due to our tiptoeing around in a politically correct mindset.

If you're going to go to war, you've got to overwhelm your enemy by all means necessary.

[oldbrowser]

Bar room gossip belongs in tabloids and should be accorded the same respect as Michael Moore's trash.