No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself.

The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern.

I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I will occasionally publish the entire article from another journal for purposes of causing discussion.

 

Questions

Question - did the Bush administration lie about or seriously and improperly exaggerate the evidence regarding alleged WMDs they presented to get the public and the Congress to support the war in Iraq?

Question - is it important that no WMD have been found yet?

Question - will the Republican-dominated Congress address these questions? And if they do, will they tell the public the results?

Question - is America now safer from terrorism than it was before the war in Iraq?

Question - does the manner in which the post war operations in Iraq matter to the US Public?

Question - does it matter to the US that most of the world didn't approve of the invasion of Iraq in the first place, and has already decided what the answers to the above questions are?

Question - if the US needs to us military force again, can Bush expect to ask to Congress and the Public to support it and anticipate any degree of trust?

The questions are not going away. Tonight the Jim Lehrer Show on PBS discussed them with their panel of newspaper editors, with mixed results. There was no doubt among any of them that the evidence given to support the invasion was selective, exaggerated out of all connection with reality, or even bogus. The mixed results were on whether this matters politically to the administration in the long run.
posted by Richard at 8:47 PM