Mea culpa needed
I read this morning how Dubya continues to justify the Iraq adventure with essentially no change in tone, and the Administration’s refusal to own up to its well-documented mistakes simply astounds me. A recent campaign ad harps on values…shouldn’t honesty be one of those?
I might be willing to believe that the series of self-serving oversights and misinterpretations that led to the war rationale was driven primarily by "group-think" (as the recent Senate report puts it) rather than a deliberate effort to mislead. Maybe. But continued refusal to even admit that the mistakes happened makes it look as though the Administration knows it messed up and is trying to cover it up. That needs to stop if they want the benefit of the doubt.