The "Official" Official Story

George Packer at The New Yorker has read the two official documents on Iraq and the war on terror: a bipartisan inquiry by the Senate Armed Services committee into treatment of detainees, and a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

"The trouble is, the information in these reports doesn’t tell the whole story, and it doesn’t tell it as a complete story. The reports only give us fragments, which will be too easily overlooked or forgotten. The official sanction of torture and the woeful management of occupied Iraq are related pieces of a much larger epic: the first is marked by criminality, the second by bureaucratic ineptitude, but they are joined together as expressions and outcomes of the ideas and habits of mind of the highest officials in the Bush Administration. Eventually the country will need, even if it won’t entirely want, the whole story to be told."

I thinks it's buy one $3 trillion dollar war, get one FREE Congressional Commission.

With a democratic administration coming in, you know better questions will be asked than by McCain and Palin. You betcha.

Source: The New Yorker