Oh What a Malleable War

February 18, 2007
Oh What a Malleable War

No sooner did unnamed military officials unveil their melodramatically
secretive briefing in Baghdad last Sunday than Gen. Peter Pace,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, blew the whole charade.

General Pace said he didn't know about the briefing and couldn't
endorse its contention that the Iranian government's highest echelons
were complicit in anti-American hostilities in Iraq.

Public-relations pandemonium ensued as Tony Snow, the State Department
and finally the president tried to revise the story line on the fly.

Back when Karl Rove ruled, everyone read verbatim from the same
script.