Saturday, November 12, 2005  Open Thread   Stopped Clock  A
completely reasonable and important editorial by Newt Gingrich.
It is long past time to convene a panel on doctor ethics.  "I
Was Wrong"  It'll be interesting to see if any major candidate
for president, from either party, will still think Iraq was a
good idea. Edwards:  I was wrong.    Open Thread   Four
Paragraphs  The Knight Ridder coverage of Bush's speech begins
with basic he-said she-said coverage we've come to know and hate
but if you read down far enough you get:  Before the war, the
President and his aides contended Hussein was concealing
nuclear, biological and chemical warfare programs in violation
of a U.N. ban. None have ever been found.  Hussein, they said,
was in league with al-Qaeda and had to be toppled before he
could give banned weapons to terrorists.  The administration
relied in part on a seriously flawed, hastily written October
2002 U.S. intelligence assessment, which concluded that Hussein
was hiding an illegal nuclear-weapon