Hear no evil, speak no evil

Don't fault the democrats for not having a plan, they do. It's been in force ever since the first mention of 'quagmire' in Afghanistan and continues to this day. It's pretty simple--make people forget the 90s.

No need to paste up all the links to MSM articles or esposes from the Clinton era. Likewise no need to dig out the stories told by Clinton cabinet members about how threatening Saddam was. No, a strange blanket of amnesia has washed over the collective soul of the port side that prohibits any memories regards terrorism or Iraq back past 2001.

Case in point, Patrick Fitzgerald recently reflared the Plamegate story by issuing a misleading filing that all but suggested Bush had placed a hit on Joe Wilson, only to correct the record the next day. By then the damage was done, as nearly every major paper had all but impeached Bush already.

But not all lefties sent their intellectual honesty packing after Bush vs Gore was decided. One is Christopher Hitchens, a stalwart in support of ousting Saddam during the 90s, who still feels that way today despite the high tide of Bush lied rhetoric coming from his compatriots.

Plamegate illustrates the fact the MSM likes to boil down certain stories into little packages of conventional wisdom, in this case that Joe Wilson's a hero. They do so by quietly ommitting or obfuscating certain factual aspects that tend to crack that wall.

Hitchen's latest column lays out a direct challenge to that. He asks Joe Wilson to explain the goings-on in Niger before Joe got there in 2002, and to tell us why that event wasn't important. The piece, entitled "Clueless Joe Wilson", details the 1999 trip taken by an Iraqi envoy to Niger, which might as well be called Yellowcakeland.

Shift to another example. The recent attacks on Secretary Rumsfeld featuring ex-generals were seized upon by the MSM as more evidence of Bush failure. One of the generals involved was Anthony Zinni. It took sites like Newsmax and World Net Daily to uncover his past comments in front of Congress about Saddam, which sounded like a Bush speech. Now he seems to have fallen into the same memory vacuum that later enveloped John Kerry.

The debate about going into Iraq is fine, it's healthy. But it's irresponsible for the mainstream press to allow certain individuals to continually suggest the Iraq intel cited by Bush was twisted or outright made up without first questioning why those same folks were once singing the same tune. The inability to ask these probing questions suggests that some of our truth warriors are nothing but partisans who consider personal politics and 'day job' as one and the same.