The Political Expediency of John Edwards

CLICK TO READ: The Right Way in Iraq by John Edwards

I have the same reaction to Mr. Edward's belatedly taking "responsiblility" for mistakenly supporting the war in Iraq as I had to the earlier politicians who have expressed the same regret. Too little. Too late. And too insincere: CLICK TO READ: The Unknown Candidate: November 8, 2005 Post

I also take exception to Edward's assertion that "the urgent question isn't how we got here but what we do now." Certainly what we do now to extricate ourselves from this quagmire is of supreme importance. However, answering the question of how we got there in the first place is equally important--if only to prevent it from happening again. Edward's argument that the preamble to the war is now unimportant is the identical rationale offered by Bush & Company in their efforts to silence any investigation into their clear improprieties in the run up to the war.

Edward's article reads like another one of his tired campaign speeches. Like Bush, he is forever on the campaign trail offering little in the way of substance and much in the way of empty words and promises.

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Larry C. Johnson writes that the Robb and Silbermann report clearly demonstrates that none of the intelligence analysis from the CIA suggested that Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction had reached a critical point requiring a pre-emptive strike.

"Unfortunately, Robb and Silbermann want Americans to accept the nonsense that politics played no role in the intelligence analysis. They ask America to accept the sorry picture of a President and legislators who, apparently, were willing idiots being spoon-fed wrong information by incompetent analysts. If we accept this fairy tale we will have learned nothing from the fiasco in Iraq."