I’ve been busy painting a helmet today, and am still a little addled from breathing paint, so I’ll just hand you off to Dr. Joyner at OTB for a round up of the navel gazing going at the 911 commission today. I really don’t get the purpose of this entire “he said, they did” exercise. It’s not as though there’s much to be learned in order to “avoid mistakes of the past”. People have been whining for 2 full years about the changes in foreign policy, homeland security and intelligence gathering by this administration.
James has some good exerpts from op-eds and this must read link to Glenn Reynolds:
BUSH CAN’T GET A BREAK: Now he’s being blamed for not invading Afghanistan in 1998! Here’s the relevant passage from MSNBC:
The report revealed that in a previously undisclosed secret diplomatic mission, Saudi Arabia won a commitment from the Taliban to expel bin Laden in 1998. But a clash between the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and Saudi officials scuttled the arrangement, and Bush did not follow up.
Damn him — governing Texas while Rome burned! Why didn’t he send the Texas Rangers to finish off Bin Laden? (“One mullah, one Ranger!”) Sheesh. Can you say “Freudian slip?”
and here too.– think of it as antidote for the Breathless Revelation Reporting on CBC/CTV news tonight.