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| | Whiskey Bar: April 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Unfortunately, the military -- the biggest big government agency of them all, but one usually ignored by conservative bureaucracy bashers -- has again become a silent partner in the failure of the think tank class, although a much more reluctant one this time around. |
 | | Faced with a choice between believing that the government of the United States launched an aggressive war based on (take your pick) outright falsehoods or complete misconceptions, or continuing to believe the original falsehoods/misconceptions, American voters (or at least, a big chunk of them) have stoutly opted for the latter. |
 | | In a sense, what's most remarkable about the memo isn't that a neocon foot soldier has finally noticed the Iraq venture is floundering, but that he or she could still, at this late date, argue that cardinal failure was the decision not to invest supreme power in Ahmed Chalabi. |
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