What the Boston Globe Thinks
Scot Lehigh, a Boston Globe columnist, thinks that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld misled (actually he goes to rather great but lame lengths to distinguish "lied" from "misled") the American people about the war on Iraq. Yawn!

Except, Lehigh uses as his primary intellectual justification a report issued by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. While I'm not certain an organization carrying that moniker is anti-war, I'm willing to bet it is. This report, entitled "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications" that conclusively proves (at least according to Lehigh) that the administration misrepresented intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraq war. (Again, yawn).

But apparently the Boston Globe doesn't think ordinary readers can use Google. A quick search turned up this article by Eric Pfeiffer in National Review that responded to the report back in January 28, 2004 when it was published. This is nearly two years ago, but at the time, Pfeiffer challenged this report for containing inconsistencies that CEIP had issued prior to January 2004. Could Mr. Lehigh find anything more recent? Did Mr. Lehigh answer any of the criticisms of the report pointed out by Mr. Pfeiffer? Take a guess. But don't take my word for it, read both and judge for yourself.
- posted by Base10 @ 5:10 PM