Free Republic

An Honest Mistake February 3, 2004 “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” I’ve always loved that ancient saying, whose author seems to be unknown. But in the age of democracy, it needs to be adapted: “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man loses every election.” Not quite as snappy, maybe, but it meets the facts. By now every blind American has heard that arms inspector David Kay has exploded the Bush administration’s justification for preemptive war on, and regime change in, Iraq: the dogmatic accusation that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction.” One-eyed...