An oldie but goodie

Ken Adelman has been a bad influence on American foreign policy for quite a while. But he may wind up being remembered most for his immortal, prophetic article Cakewalk in Iraq Washington Post 02/13/02.

It's always good to revisit the classics. But here I wanted to remember another piece of his incisive analysis about Iraq in 2002. This was from an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal from 08/28/02. Bush court historian Bob Woodward quotes from it in Plan of Attack (2004):

... Adelman weighed in with a blistering op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal. Saddam was a bigger threat than al Qaeda, he wrote, because he had a country, billions in oil revenue, an army and "scores of scientific laboratories and myriad manufacturing plants cranking out weapons of mass destruction."

The problem could not be solved with new U.N. inspections, Adelman wrote. "Every day Mr. Bush holds off liberating Iraq is another day endangering America. Posing as a 'patient man,' he risks a catastrophic attack. Should that attack occur and be traced back to an Iraqi WMD facility, this president would be relegated to the ash heap of history."

Saddam had "scores of scientific laboratories and myriad manufacturing plants cranking out weapons of mass destruction." He should get a Nostradamus Award or something for that one! Of such is our foreign policy made under the Bush dynasty.

Well, at least Adelman is likely to proved proved right about Bush being "relegated to the ash heap of history".

It's just too bad that he's done so much damage on his way there.

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