Thursday, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) took
to the floor of the Senate to accuse Vice President Dick Cheney of
being "out of touch with reality" for telling CNN that the
administration has had "enormous successes in
Iraq."
Obviously Cheney's empirical claim is correct. But this is like
Lincoln saying the Union achieved "enormous successes" in the Civil
War. Accurate, true, congratulations. But. To be "out of touch with
reality" is not to emphasize the successes in Iraq -- of which are
many and significant -- but to deny the errors, shortcomings, and
bunglings. Of which, any sensible person should readily
acknowledge, have been many and significant in and of
themselves.
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