In case you missed
yesterday's op-ed article by Frank Rich in the New York Times, he has a terrific slapdown of The Dick's disinformation campaign about torture and national security. He cites the long-standing, probing journalism of the McClatchy Newspapers' Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind in exposing
the deceitful propaganda of the Bush/Cheney Administration over the Iraq War, while al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan had time to recoup and rebuild. All the while, cowed by insinuations about their patriotism, many Dems in Congress and the Beltway media villagers facilitated the deceptions and avoided asking the right questions -- if they asked any questions at all.
As Rich notes, Pakistan has been revealed as al Qaeda's true prize, a country with a ready-made nuclear arsenal and segments of the population ready to listen to al Qaeda:
"The harrowing truth remains unchanged from what it was before Cheney emerged from his bunker to set Washington atwitter. The Bush administration did not make America safer either before or after 9/11. Obama is not making us less safe. If there's another terrorist attack, it will be because the mess the Bush administration ignored in Pakistan and Afghanistan spun beyond anyone's control well before Americans could throw the bums out."
