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3 strikes between p and Tom. Yer out.
Tony — (archived)

Strike 1:
Can we stop killing the messenger? What does Johnson's July 2001 opinion have to do with his opinion on the outing of a covert agent?
We all know the CIA screwed up. Tenet even got a medal for it.
"They are stuck in permanent pre-911 nirvana land thinking." Why? Because someone dug up his own pre-911 thinking?
Point?

Strike 2:
If you'd read around the sphere, you'd have found that Gary Schmitt also wrote "The reason is that, as horrific as terrorism can be, its human and material costs have a minimal impact on the American population. Oh, we loudly demand that the culprits be caught and justice meted out. But that indignation passes rapidly as the terrorists’ deeds fade and the terrorists themselves disappear into the shadows. And the dirty little secret is that governments are often happy that’s the case." PDF Via atrios. sounds like pre-9/11 thinking to me. Course, he wrote it in 2000, but still.......

But that would also be attacking the messenger. Ball one.

Strike 3:
P's previous rejection of being a minion foot soldier for Bush is found invalid.
Did you get the page at 3:54 AM?

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