Small Stupid Men

Commenting on this NYTimes article by Don Van Natta Jr, which discusses the memo of a meeting between Bush & Blair wherein they conspired to lie about reasons for their pre-determined war, Digby says:

Here is more proof that the president lied repeatedly to take this nation to war. Undoubtedly this is completely lawful since the Infallible Republican President Doctrine asserts that the president can do anything he chooses. Still, it's unpleasantly discomfiting to see proof that the president and his number one ally casually strategized which lies and provocations they could come up with to justify their decision to invade a country that presented no threat.

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So please let's can the talk once and for all about how the invasion was a good idea that was just badly executed. It was a terrible idea, as all such ideas hatched by small, stupid men with big ambitions must be. If we ever hope to regain our credibility we need to seriously contemplate plans to bring about a reckoning.

Read the whole thing here and the NYTimes article here.