Now he tells us

Finally, he admits it, Iraq and Sept. 11 had nothing to do with each other. Except that the president and his minions saw it as a good excuse to do what they’d wanted to do all along.

“This is not an admission of error, but something more grave,” writes Marie Cocco in the Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.).

It is an exposition of the tragic lack of logic that impairs the Bush administration and imperils the country. The leaps of imagination that Bush makes — still — between Sept. 11 and Saddam Hussein are not entirely political calculation, meant to confuse a bewildered nation about the terrorist threat. The president’s mind and his policies are directed by this intuition. And so is the nation.

And so we constantly teeter on the brink of war — in Iran, in Lebanon, in so many places — and watch as so many needs at home and around the globe go unmet. (Read this essay by Stanley Hoffman, which offers some interesting proposals for a new approach on the world stage.)

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet