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What Are They Thinking? (Or What Are We?)
02/13/2003

Y'know, this may make me predictably partisan, but I've about had it with the Democrats' posturing on anything having to do with the security of this nation. Americans are tensed to the breaking point, just waiting for the Next Thing to happen, hoping that it is our action and doesn't kill too many (any) of us, and Senator Carl Levin is giving CIA director George Tenet guff about possibly not having handed over every bit of top-secret intelligence we have on Iraq to unaccountable international bureaucrats:

Led by Senator Carl Levin, the Democrats accused the CIA of making an assessment that the inspections were unlikely to be a success and then ensuring they would not be. They have accused the CIA director of lying about what information on the suspected location of weapons of mass destruction had been passed on.

This doesn't even follow logically unless the Senator is being dishonest about what the inspections were meant to do. Let's review: the inspections were not meant to "disarm" Iraq; the process is not designed for that, and this specific team was obviously not set up to accomplish such a job. The inspections were a way to give Saddam Hussein one last chance to show that he was willing to cooperate. He hasn't. Furthermore, had we given the inspectors even more information, they would have only further succeeded in proving Saddam's deceit and hastening the war that is now upon us.

What is actually going on in the world doesn't appear to matter to Mr. Levin. The Democrats are angling in the hopes that something goes wrong and they'll have a good-sized political toldyaso. We've been hearing murmurs that the Democrats are preparing to jump on President Bush the moment something bad happens in the war on terror.

Frankly, I think it'll backfire. If another catastrophe befalls the United States, I think Americans will have very little patience left for anything from the government other than the full, deliberate, and speedy prosecution of war on all of the people, groups, and nations who would do us harm. I think the mood will be such that any Democrats who attempt such a statement will seem akin to a man standing up during a burial ceremony between major battles and screaming, "Ha! I told you this was a bad idea!"

Posted by Justin Katz @ 10:21 PM EST

1 Comment

I lost all remaining respect I had for Mr. Levin as a consequence of his interview with Brit Hume on Sunday Feb. 9th. Levin's subsequent grilling of Tenet merely confirms I was correct in my assessment.

Mark @ 02/14/2003 12:07 PM EST