OK, there’s been a great discussion in this blog’s comments over my post about the apparent contradiction between the urgency of the Iraqi threat, as painted by Cheney et al., and the administration’s willingness to let the whole project slide in August because it’s a bad time to “market a new product” and Bush was on vacation. Here, and over on Instapundit, I’m hearing the suggestion that the delay was really about weather — the hot summer is a bad time to go on the offensive in the desert.
Could well be. But if that’s the case, it’s been a pretty big secret from the American people. I mean, why doesn’t the administration just say so? “The president has decided that we’re going after Iraq but he’s going to do it at the best time, strategically.” But that’s not what the administration said this summer. The president said nothing and his lieutenants said contradictory things — and that, as I wrote in this piece, it left a total vacuum in the public debate.
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