Who says that politicians aren’t aware of what’s going on in the world? Yesterday, more than thirty-two months after the war against Iraq began, Democratic senators decided it was time to inquire into what critics of the war have known since it began: the Bush administration’s misuse of intelligence to rationalize it. Now former president Carter has boldly come forth with the assertion that government claims about Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction had been “manipulated, at least” in order to mislead Americans. Carter added that Republicans had been delaying any congressional inquiry into this question. And where have the … Continue reading Being Up-To-Date