Al Gore's Clear Thinking - Letters to the W Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52289-2003Aug12.html

"Finally, The Post accused Mr. Gore of trying to "have it both ways" by "pandering to anti-Bush passion while protecting his national-security flank." But only a partisan supporter of the president would argue that criticizing Mr. Bush is inconsistent with national security. "

Some very good letters here.

My faith in my fellow Americans is being restored.

The Post's editorial said that Al Gore had "blurred" vision when he "breathlessly" said that the public was fooled by the Bush administration's "systematic effort to manipulate facts in service to a totalistic ideology."

Might it also be said that The Post breathlessly gushed in a Feb. 6 editorial headlined "Irrefutable" the day after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell presented the administration's case against Saddam Hussein in the United Nations? Much of that case has been refuted -- e.g., aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons, mobile biological laboratories, long-range drones. Sort of consistent with Mr. Gore's "effort to manipulate facts" argument.

Fooled The Post.

ROBERT J. MURAWSKI

Arlington

When I read this editorial, I had to turn back to page one to see if They had delivered the Washington Times in error. Sad.