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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Why do I even read the NRO?

It seems Eric Pfeiffer at The National Review has a problem understanding Bush's arguement on the difference between Iraq and Bin Laden having ties to 9/11 and ties between the two in general:

Meanwhile, the 9/11 commissioners continue to contradict each other regarding bin Laden and Hussein. Appearing on Sunday's Meet the Press, commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste declared, "Take it to the bank, there was no Iraqi involvement in 9/11. Let's put that to bed. That's what our commission found." Fellow commissioner John Lehman followed this on the same program stating, "There's really very little difference between what our staff found, what the administration is saying today and what the Clinton administration said. The Clinton administration portrayed the relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam's intelligence services as one of cooperating in weapons development. There's abundant evidence of that.... It confirms the cooperative relationship, which were the words of the Clinton administration, between al Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence."