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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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That really is what its all about Hank. That's why, despite the abject failure of at least the planning and much of the execution for post-war Iraq, no one has lost his job. Doug Feith and Rumsfeld are still beavering away up at the Pentagon.
Despite the intelligence failures and lack of coordination among intelligence and law enforcement agencies pre- and post-9/11, no one really lost their job. (Tenet resigning after 8+ years in office, and more than two years after the Iraq advice, barely counts.) There have been no big changes at the FBI -- which comes off worst of all from the 9/11 commission report.
The only thing stopping the prisoner abuse investigations from disappearing are the efforts of certain GOP Senators (Warner, McCain, etc.) and Congresspeople who have told the military to go back and do a better job of investigation.
This administration has no interest in any sort of accountability for failures which might acknowledge mistakes and/or cost it even .1% in the eyes of the electorate. Both parties seem to have fully adopted the Clintonian maxim -- "First, you have to get elected." This is hardly a conservative value.
S_A_M
P.S. In the interests of "equal time" -- if you want to read some "devastating" piece (harking back to Ty's use of the phrase) -- read the WaPo editorial from Sunday(?) entitled "Mr. Kerry and Iraq." They hit very hard on the flip-flopping and mismanagement of his positions.
