Compare and contrast
Also from the NYT (yesterday's).
I agree with Krugman (Bowser's post), and not Friedman... but Friedman had a couple of interesting things to say, if I may be excused for "cherry picking":
We are now paying for the contradiction between Mr. Bush's two great projects: his war on taxes and his war on terrorism.
and
Unless President Bush dispenses with his discredited argument for the war — W.M.D. — no one will hear or listen to what I believe was always the only right argument for the war and is now the only rationale left: to depose the genocidal Saddam regime in order to partner with the Iraqi people to build a decent government . . .