As usual, Froomkin’s column is worth a look.
No Doubts, Then and Now
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, April 30, 2007; 2:28 PM
As President Bush drove the country to what has turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq, did he ever have any doubts about whether it was the right call? Did he ever even consider there might be another way?
The new book by former CIA director George Tenet adds more evidence to the conclusion that once the president’s mind was made up, there was no looking back. Inside the White House, the only debate about the war would appear to have been about how to sell it.
The administration’s response to this latest charge has been angry — yet vague. Bush’s defenders are still unable to offer up one concrete piece of evidence suggesting that the costs that could (and would) be suffered by American troops and the Iraqi people weighed heavily enough upon the president that he ever seriously questioned his initial decision.
Please find the column here.