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There's No Evidence
Bush and Cheney are in sync: they have no evidence and so do not know if there was a link between Saddam and 9/11.
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But the administration does know, and Mr. Bush was forced to acknowledge it on Wednesday.
They wish! To say "we have no evidence" does not mean that the administration "does know." It means that it doesn't.
But logic is no bar to the all-important imperative, if you are a journalist, of picking apart the administration's words in search of contradictions -- or anything that may for a moment plausibly be thought to be a contradiction. It all comes from the culture of mistrust that the reigning orthodoxy of those who call themselves "the journalistic community" thinks is healthy for a democracy. But the falseness and injustice of such reckless accusations cannot be healthy for anybody.
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James Bowman, our movie and culture critic, is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of Honor: A History and Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture, both published by Encounter Books.
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