[Cathryn Crawford]

Actually, this article makes a lot of good and right points. As always with Freidman, you have to look closely to see it, beyond the other things mixed in.

Overall grade: C+

[HHFi]

I agree, most of what he says here is right on. I just disagree that failure to find any WMD will be some sort of crippling blow to Bush's credibility. I think the whole issue is being inflated into a huge hoohah because the leftists pushing it were sooooooooooooo wrong about absolutely everything they've said since 9/11, they are desperate to any any reed, no matter how flimsy, to flail Bush and Blair with. If they don't find the WMD, it means intelligence was wrong (and even their hero Bill Clinton believed it), or we jerked around with the UN so long that Saddam had plenty of time to hide them or move them to Syria, or whatever, but none of that makes me respect Bush any less.

And what if it turns out there never were any WMD? Does that mean the caring, compassionate liberals think it would have been okay to leave Saddam in power until Uday took over for another 30 years? Is protecting their own precious self-involved, wine-swilling, Ivy League carcasses so important that they prefer we would have left the men on the torture hooks, the women in the rape rooms and the children in prison? How large would the mass graves have swollen by the time before they finally decided it was justified to take action? And they dare to lecture us that Bush is immoral because he "lied?" What utterly worthless wastes of oxygen these stunted trolls are.

[Amelia]

Actually, this article makes a lot of good and right points. As always with Freidman, you have to look closely to see it, beyond the other things mixed in.

He was doing okay until the last 3 paragraphs, and even there he's not all wrong.

Friedman does understand the Arab mind, and so his writing is useful. (They do NOT think like Americans do.)

That being said, he's also fairly liberal, and I don't always agree with his conclusions.

[tictoc]

I would even give him a B minus!

His breakdown into the real reason, the right reason, the moral reason, and the stated reason has the virtue of simplicity, and moreover, he's right on target.

The gratuitous swipe at Bush towards the end is what we expect of him, and he lives down to our expectation.

But otherwise, not bad at all.

[liberallarry]

As always with Freidman, you have to look closely to see it, beyond the other things mixed in.

He sees the road...but he walks in the mud.

[Helms]

Overall grade: C+

Can we settle on just a "gentleman's C" like they used to give out when Tom attended school?