Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Obama's Omission   [Peter Suderman]

I’m getting a lot of e-mail objecting to my post on Obama and WMDs, most of it arguing that what Obama said was defensible. My point, however, was not to argue with what Obama said, but that it’s notable that, in a current fundraising effort, Obama is, according to that post, choosing to omit references to his belief that Iraq had WMDs. That omission is telling in that it could be read to suggest either that 1) he doesn’t want to remind people that he agreed with President Bush that Iraq probably had WMDs or that 2) he doesn’t want to remind people that he thought Iraq had WMDs and yet opposed the war anyway.

05/02 02:48 PMShare