A Pause for Hindsight (NY Times)

NY Times の昨日の社説。イラク攻撃開始のときにブッシュ政権が主張していたWMDの存在を熟慮することなく信じてしまったことを謝罪するもの。

we do fault ourselves for failing to deconstruct the W.M.D. issue with the kind of thoroughness we directed at the question of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda, or even tax cuts in time of war. We did not listen carefully to the people who disagreed with us. Our certainty flowed from the fact that such an overwhelming majority of government officials, past and present, top intelligence officials and other experts were sure that the weapons were there.