Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Lost   [George Conway]

George Will recounts a story from State of Denial:  Scooter Libby calls up David Kay, who's in charge of looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, to tell Kay that the Vice President wants a particular place searched. Libby gives Kay the location's coordinates, and tells him that "something's buried there."

Kay and his staff pull out a map. The coordinates are in Lebanon.

Will opines that this story would be

hilarious were it not about war. The vignette is dismaying because it seems symptomatic of a blinkering monomania that may have prevented obsessed persons from facing fact.

Will goes on:

"Where's the leader?" Bush, according to Woodward, has exclaimed in dismay about the Iraqi government's dithering. "Where's George Washington? Where's Thomas Jefferson? Where's John Adams, for crying out loud?" For a president to ask that question about Iraq, that tribal stew, is enough to cause one to ask it about the United States.

10/03 09:58 PM