Oops!
Newsweek is sincerely sorry that it caused fifteen deaths by running a false story claiming that American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay were flushing copies of the Qu'ran down the toilet.
The Hedgehog Report raises a very apt question. Assuming complete good faith in the Newsweek report, and assuming (which I don't think a reasonable and informed person can assume) that President Bush was equally mistaken as to whether Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction at the outset of the Iraq War, would we not be at least as justified in taking up the mantra, "Newsweek lied, people died!" as the Left is in saying the same thing about the President?
I'll answer my own question.
No. We would be more justified- because Saddam, whatever else may or may not have been true, failed to meet the standard of proof established by seventeen UN Security Council resolutions that he no longer possessed WMD- which was not merely a clean bill of health from Hans Blix, but destruction of the weapons he had admitted having in the presence of UN observers.
The Hedgehog Report raises a very apt question. Assuming complete good faith in the Newsweek report, and assuming (which I don't think a reasonable and informed person can assume) that President Bush was equally mistaken as to whether Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction at the outset of the Iraq War, would we not be at least as justified in taking up the mantra, "Newsweek lied, people died!" as the Left is in saying the same thing about the President?
I'll answer my own question.
No. We would be more justified- because Saddam, whatever else may or may not have been true, failed to meet the standard of proof established by seventeen UN Security Council resolutions that he no longer possessed WMD- which was not merely a clean bill of health from Hans Blix, but destruction of the weapons he had admitted having in the presence of UN observers.
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