What is it about CBS that people who work for them become delusional? The network is hitting the Daily Double today with Katie C. bloviating ^[1] on Iraq and good old Dan turning weepy ^[2]over his lawsuit and implying he’d like to see George Bush deposed. I assume that’s about the extent of the President’s National Guard Service, although I don’t see how that’s relevant to whether Rather promulgated forged documents on the subject on Sixty Minutes. I can’t imagine why a judge would let such a thing in, but who knows… what’s Lance Ito doing these days?

Meanwhile, Katie is reassuring an audience of the already firmly convinced that the Iraq War was a “mistake.” That’s indeed conventional wisdom in the MSM from a very conventional woman, but perhaps a tad early (fifty years?) for the history books. Also, it has the kind of (could we even say racist?) obliviousness we have come to expect from members of her class – coupled with the clich´s about no-Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq that have been contradicted a thousand times to no avail. I guess she doesn’t read much outside staff papers. One thing I’m certain she doesn’t read is Iraq the Model ^[3] because it is written by, um, real Iraqis who had to live under Saddam. Was the war a mistake for them?