You have a lot of resources available to you. Krugman writes op-eds for the times. He might have the ability to meet a couple of important people here and there which you don't, but people need to stop thinking they are limited.
Our general media might not always give whole stories, but Krugman does not either since he's in the op-ed section. Brooks writes more eloquently, Safire is much more conservative, and Dowd honestly writes as if she takes acid every single time she writes and makes me question why she is a writer.
As for the commission they found a lot of problems with both sides. Clinton could have eliminated Osama, but didn't. Clark is being praised as the next Messiah, but do you honestly believe his book deal has nothing to do with this at all? The WMD might not be found but when the country shows these weapons to UN inspectors and several years later they're not there, it means there is no explanation and not that they didn't exist. Additionally, this wasn't simply about WMD.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by XOMichelle
I quote Paul Krugman because I think he has a eloquent way of saying how I feel. Not only that, he has a wealth of information at his fingertips that I do not have on a day to day baisis (our general media sources do not always give whole stories of un biased facts, and I do not always have the time to follow up on everything that is said).
Not only that, but I feel that with the committee meeting that has been taking place in the past week, this is a time where criticism is justified. Richard Clarke publicly apologized to the country for not having the right information sharing systems in place to perhaps prevent 9/11. Now, there is a lot of hubbub on why he said that, or if they could have "connected the dots" if the perfect system was in place, but the point is, many top public officials think that something went wrong. This isn't something to be blind to! Not only that, the crucial information the Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was what made a lot of Americans originally against the war in Iraq, for it. Now we know that's not true, either. I don’t know about you, but I refuse to have my government lie to me, and then be reticent about investigation. That is what is going on right now, and criticism is certainly justified for such acts.
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