Media dolts: The point isn't that GWB made up his mind; it's that he LIED!

[BurtWorm]

Idiots! Like Al Kamen of the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601413_pf.html



Who Knew What -- and When

The liberal blogomania over the media's cover-up of the "Downing Street memo" -- the British intelligence notes of meetings indicating, among other things, that the administration's decision to invade Iraq was made long before anyone else knew about it -- continues unabated.

The fuss reminds us of a front-page story by colleague Glenn Kessler , written in January 2003, two months before the invasion, parsing President Bus h 's decision-making process on Iraq.

The article includes this anecdote: "Only later did it become clear that the president already had made up his mind. In July <2002, about the time of the Downing Street memo>, the State Department's director of policy planning, Richard N. Haass , held a regular meeting with <then-national security adviser Condoleezza > Rice and asked whether they should talk about the pros and cons of confronting Iraq.

"Don't bother, Rice replied: The president has made a decision."

Well, it's still good to know the Brits had also figured this out.