Thursday, January 29, 2004

Bad Advice

Dump Cheney Now!

I like the title, but I'm not sure what to make of the content of Maureen Dowd's rather odd op-ed piece today. To lay blame on advisers who gave Bush bad information is to give Bush himself too free a pass. Not that I think Dowd is doing that--or do I? Her writing today is spectacularly unclear, almost as if she were mocking the typical response of the Bush Administration to any question. So below I'd like to discuss two things: is Bush less to blame than those who provided faulty intelligence, and is that what Dowd is saying?

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