The Washington Times

Try looking at it this way: Country X, a large multi-ethnic state, was ruled for a generation by a brutal dictator from the smallest ethnic group. Finally, however, the dictator lost his grip and the government fell, propelling Country X into conditions verging on anarchy.

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The Washington Times

Two Sundays ago in The Washington Post, it was former senator (and Iraq war supporter) John Edwards on deck with an op-ed accusing the Bush administration of having misled him on the question of weapons of mass destruction. This Sunday, it was former senator (and Iraq war opponent) Bob Graham’s turn to level the same accusation. Mr. Edwards portrayed himself as a victim of the administration’s perfidy. Mr. Graham portrays himself as someone who saw through the administration’s perfidy at the time.

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The Washington Times

“I was wrong,” wrote John Edwards in The Washington Post Sunday, repudiating his vote to authorize military action against the Saddam Hussein regime in September 2002. Well, yes, he was wrong. Then, a prudent political calculation for a Democrat with national political aspirations was to support the Bush administration’s effort to get Saddam to disarm or take his regime down by force. Now, the prudent calculation to maintain your viability within the late-2005 Democratic Party is to run as far away from your unfortunate 2002 vote as possible – by presenting yourself as yet another victim of the supposed deception foisted on the American people.

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The Washington Times

“Voter Anger Might Mean an Electoral Shift in ‘06″ screamed the headline of the lead story in The Washington Post on Sunday. Ah, how it took me back – to a late winter day in 1994 when Adam Meyerson, then editor of Policy Review, called me at my office at The Washington Times’ editorial page to ask me to write an article for him about what would happen if the Republicans won control of Congress that November.

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The Washington Times

So, if you thought Bill Clinton lying to the grand jury was a serious matter, are you obliged to take the same dim view of the crimes alleged against Scooter Libby? Or if you thought Mr. Clinton’s dissembling needed to be understood in the context of a process that was so deeply unfair to him that it trumped whatever offenses he may have committed, are you obliged to hold open the same possibility in the case of Mr. Libby?

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